Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to take your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting
If you get a cloud plan from our company, you will be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of mouse clicks. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a mini padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it, you’ll just have to click once more and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the exact same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different admin consoles.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you would like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with just a couple of clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock-like icon. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can initiate the transfer straight away. The change will propagate instantly, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.