Transferring an existing domain name entails switching the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to take your domain name. 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 Shared Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every shared hosting plan that we offer, will grant you total control over your domains. You’ll find all domain names registered through us neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can change the present status by clicking once more – the process is as simple as that. You won’t have to wait for the change to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect immediately, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the information that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have registered a domain name through our company and you would like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it through the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be shown alphabetically in your account and you’ll see a mini padlock icon next to each domain name there, as long as its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and modify the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then go ahead and initiate the domain name transfer process straight away without needing to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the change will propagate instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.