Transferring an active domain involves changing the domain registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is unbelievably easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our Linux shared website hosting, and will take literally two clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be listed alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you will see the present status of the domain. Click for the second time and you will change its status. The update 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 websites, so you can continue with the transfer procedure straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar company and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with just a few mouse clicks. All your domain registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can go ahead with the transfer straight away. The update will propagate instantaneously, so you will not need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.