Transferring an already registered domain name entails changing the domain name registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure 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 involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to take your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared web hosting plan that we offer, will give you full command over your domains. You will find all domains registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a mini padlock icon next to them. By clicking the icon, you can see if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can change the present status by clicking once again – the procedure is as simple as that. You won’t have to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect immediately, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the details that they display.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you want to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with only 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 web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock icon. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer procedure straight away. The change will propagate momentarily, so you will not have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.