Transferring an active domain name entails switching the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting plan that we offer, will give you total command over your domain names. You’ll find all domain names registered through our company neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a mini padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the particular domain name is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking once more – the process is as straightforward as that. You won’t have to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantly, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the info that they show.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you have registered a domain through our company and you wish to transfer it away, 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 will see a small padlock-like icon on the right side of each domain there, on the condition that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the current status by clicking on it again. You can then proceed and start the transfer right away without the need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will propagate momentarily without you or us having to do anything else.