Transferring an existing domain entails changing the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It is 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 procedure, so no one can even attempt to register your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting
With a Linux cloud web hosting from us, you will exert complete command over your domain names through our in-house created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking/unlocking any of the domain names registered here, provided that the particular domain name extension supports this option. Clicking the padlock symbol that you will notice next to any domain name registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once again will enable you to update that status. In case you wish to transfer a domain to another domain name registrar, you can initiate the process right away. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just have to go through the exact same steps.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with just a few 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 particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer procedure straight away. The update will propagate instantaneously, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.