Transferring an existing domain name involves changing the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process is standard with most domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to steal your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
With a Linux shared hosting package from our company, you’ll exert full authority over your domains through our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you would like, including locking & unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, provided that the particular Top-Level Domain extension supports this option. Clicking on the padlock symbol that you will notice next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking it once again will permit you to modify that status. In case you wish to transfer a domain name to another domain name registrar, you can initiate the process momentarily. Since unlocking a domain name through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect instantly, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain is just as easy – you’ll just have to follow the very same steps.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve registered a domain through our company and you’d like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be listed alphabetically in your account and you’ll notice a mini padlock-like icon next to each domain name there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then go ahead and start the domain name transfer right away without needing to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will propagate instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.