Transferring an already registered domain involves changing the company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to register your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
If you purchase a shared hosting service from our company, you will be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a mini padlock logo. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would like to transfer it, you will just have to click for the second time and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the very same location as the hosting account itself, you will not need to log in and out of different Control Panels.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve registered a domain through our company and you want to transfer it, you can quickly unlock it through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a mini padlock-like icon next to each domain name there, provided that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the present status by clicking on it again. You can then proceed and initiate the domain transfer procedure right away without waiting for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites, as the change will propagate immediately without you or us having to do anything else.