Transferring an active domain name entails switching the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every hosting plan that we offer, will give you total authority over your domains. You will see all domain names registered through us conveniently listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a mini padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the current status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantaneously, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve registered a domain name through us and you wish to transfer it, you can quickly unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be listed alphabetically in your account and you will see a tiny padlock-like icon on the right side of each domain name there, as long as its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and modify the current status by clicking on it once again. You can then proceed and initiate the transfer procedure right away without the need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will propagate immediately without you or us having to do anything else.