Transferring an existing domain involves changing the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific 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 involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to snatch your domain. 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 functionality are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is unbelievably easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our shared website hosting services, and will take exactly two clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be displayed alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will notice a padlock-like logo. Click on it once and you will see the domain name’s current status. Click once again and you will change its status. The change will propagate immediately without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can go ahead with the transfer process right away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing your domain names with our company is astonishingly easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. In case you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domain names registered through our company using the exact same Control Panel via which you’ll administer your hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domains will be listed alphabetically and on the right you’ll notice a padlock-like icon if the particular domain supports the registrar lock option. If you click the icon, you will find out if the particular domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to change this status by clicking once again. The status will be changed straight away and you will be able to initiate the domain name transfer without having to wait for the change to appear on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.