Transferring an existing domain name involves switching the domain registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

If you buy a Linux shared hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just a few mouse clicks. All registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a mini padlock logo. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you’ll just need to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the exact same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to sign in and out of different admin consoles.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domains with our company is very easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to manage the domains registered through our company using the same Control Panel via which you will administer your hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domain names will be shown alphabetically and on the right-hand side you will see a padlock-like icon in case the particular domain name supports the registrar lock feature. If you click on the icon, you will see if the given domain is locked or not and you will be able to update this status by clicking once again. The status will change right away and you will be able to start the domain name transfer process without the need to wait for the update to be displayed on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.