Transferring an existing domain entails changing the registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only several clicks. All your domain names will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, 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. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer straight away. The change will propagate momentarily, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.