Transferring an already registered domain name involves switching the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications 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 involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every hosting plan that we offer, will grant you absolute authority over your domain names. You will see all domain names registered through our company neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can update the present status by clicking once again – the process is as straightforward as that. You won’t have to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect momentarily, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing your domains with our company is truly easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. In case you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to administer the domain names registered through us using the very same Control Panel via which you will manage your web hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domain names will be displayed in alphabetical order and on the right you will notice a padlock icon in case the particular domain name supports the registrar lock option. If you click on the icon, you will see whether the particular domain name is locked or not and you will be able to change this status by clicking once more. The status will be updated instantly and you will be able to start the domain transfer procedure without needing to wait for the update to appear on WHOIS lookup sites or for us to do anything on our end.