Transferring an already registered domain involves switching the company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain name. 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every website hosting plan that we offer, will grant you total authority over your domains. You’ll see all domain names registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking once more – the process is as straightforward as that. You will not have to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantaneously, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the info that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have registered a domain name through us and you wish to transfer it, you can easily unlock it through the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in your account and you will see a mini padlock icon next to each domain there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then go ahead and initiate the transfer procedure straight away without the need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the change will propagate immediately without you or us having to do anything else.