Transferring an existing domain involves switching the registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to take your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every hosting plan that we offer, will grant you total control over your domain names. You’ll find all domains registered through us neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You won’t have to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect momentarily, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the details that they show.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you want to transfer a domain 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 a few clicks of the mouse. All your domain registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like icon. You can see whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking once again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can proceed with the transfer straight away. The update will take effect momentarily, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.