Transferring an active domain entails switching the domain registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to take your domain name. The lock can be removed 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 Web Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain registered through us is unbelievably easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our Linux shared web hosting services, and will require exactly two clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you will notice the domain name’s present status. Click for the second time and you’ll alter its status. The update will take effect immediately without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can go ahead with the transfer right away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only several clicks. All your domains will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can initiate the domain name transfer procedure straight away. The update will take effect instantaneously, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.