Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the registrar company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to take your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

With a web hosting from us, you’ll have absolute control over your domains through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking/unlocking any of the domain names registered through our company, on the condition that the particular TLD extension supports this feature. Clicking on the padlock sign that you will see next to any domain name registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it for the second time will enable you to change that status. In case you wish to transfer a domain to another registrar company, you can initiate the process without any delays. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect instantly, no propagation time or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just have to go through the very same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only several mouse clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer straight away. The update will propagate immediately, so you won’t have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.