Transferring an existing domain name involves switching the company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to register 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 the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every hosting package that we offer, will give you absolute control over your domains. 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 registrar lock option will have a mini padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can change the present status by clicking once again – the process is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect momentarily, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the information that they display.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you want to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just several mouse clicks. All your domain name registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll 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 alter the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can initiate the transfer right away. The change will propagate instantly, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.