Transferring an existing domain name entails switching the registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It’s a default 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 nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting
If you order a Linux shared website hosting package from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a few clicks. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a small padlock sign. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you would like to transfer it away, you’ll just have to click once again and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different systems.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with just several mouse clicks. All your domain registrations will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking once again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can continue with the transfer process straight away. The update will propagate instantaneously, so you will not have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.