Transferring an active domain involves switching the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to steal your domain name. The 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 functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting from our company, you’ll exert total authority over your domains through our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking & unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, as long as the specific Top-Level Domain extension supports this option. Clicking on the padlock icon that you will see next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking it once again will permit you to update that status. If you want to transfer a domain name to another registrar company, you can start the process straight away. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect instantly, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just need to follow the very same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve registered a domain name through our company and you’d like to transfer it, you can quickly unlock it via the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be shown alphabetically in your account and you’ll see a mini padlock icon next to each domain there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then proceed and start the domain name transfer right away without having to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will propagate instantly without you or us having to do anything else.