Transferring an active domain entails switching the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new company. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to register your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting
If you get a shared web hosting service from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just several mouse clicks. All registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock sign. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you wish to transfer it, you will just have to click once again and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different admin interfaces.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you want to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just a couple of clicks. All your domain names will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer procedure straight away. The update will propagate momentarily, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.