Transferring an active domain name involves switching the company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process 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 entails a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to snatch your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting
If you buy a cloud hosting from our company, you will be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a few clicks. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a tiny padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just need to click once more and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the very same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different platforms.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you wish to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with just a couple of clicks. All your domain names will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can continue with the domain name transfer right away. The change will take effect instantaneously, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.