Transferring an existing domain involves changing the domain name registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer process is standard with most domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start 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 and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
With a Linux shared hosting from us, you’ll have complete authority over your domain names through our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you would like, including locking and unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, as long as the particular generic or country-code domain extension supports this option. Clicking the padlock icon that you’ll find next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once more will permit you to alter that status. In case you’d like to transfer a domain name to another domain registrar, you can start the process momentarily. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect instantaneously, no propagation time or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just need to complete the very same steps.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you want to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar company and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just several clicks. All your domain names will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will notice a padlock-like icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can go ahead with the domain name transfer process straight away. The update will take effect instantly, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.