Transferring an already registered domain name entails changing the domain name registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting from our company, you’ll have absolute command over your domains through our custom Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking/unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, as long as the specific domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock icon that you’ll notice next to any domain registered in your Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking it for the second time will allow you to edit that status. If you’d like to transfer a domain to another domain registrar, you can initiate the process right away. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect instantly, 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 have registered a domain through our company and you’d like to transfer it, you can easily unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a mini padlock icon next to each domain there, provided that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the present status by clicking on it once more. You can then continue and initiate the domain transfer procedure right away without waiting for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will take effect instantly without you or us having to do anything else.