Transferring an existing domain name entails switching the registrar company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary 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 operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every shared hosting package that we offer, will give you complete control over your domains. You’ll see all domains 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 tiny 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 change the current status by clicking again – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You won’t need to wait for the change to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect immediately, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the info that they show.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing your domains with our company is truly easy and the registrar lock feature makes no exception. In case you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domain names registered through us using the very same Control Panel via which you will administer your web hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domains will be listed in alphabetical order and on the right you will notice a padlock icon in case the given domain name supports the registrar lock option. If you click on the icon, you’ll see if the given domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to change this status by clicking again. The status will be changed straight away and you will be able to initiate the domain transfer procedure without the need to wait for the update to be shown on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.