Transferring an active domain involves changing the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Some 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 name. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain. The 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 Cloud Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through us is amazingly easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our cloud hosting, and will require exactly two clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will notice a padlock-like logo. Click on it once and you’ll see the present status of the domain name. Click for the second time and you will alter its status. The change will take effect immediately without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can go ahead with the transfer straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with just several clicks of the mouse. All your domain name registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock 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 once more. 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 domain transfer procedure right away. The change will propagate immediately, so you will not need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.