Transferring an existing domain involves changing the company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code TLD 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 procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to take your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through us is astonishingly easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our hosting, and will take literally two clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be shown alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will notice a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you’ll notice the domain’s present status. Click again and you’ll change its status. The update will propagate instantly without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can continue with the transfer straight away.