Transferring an existing domain name entails changing the registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting package that we offer, will give you total control over your domain names. You will find all domains registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You won’t need to wait for the change to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the info that they display.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have registered a domain through our company and you’d like to transfer it, you can quickly unlock it through the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you will notice a small padlock icon next to each domain there, provided that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and modify the current status by clicking on it once more. You can then go ahead and start the transfer process straight away without waiting for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will propagate immediately without you or us having to do anything else.