Transferring an active domain name entails changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to snatch 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

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is incredibly easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our Linux cloud web hosting packages, and will take literally two clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be shown alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like sign. Click on it once and you’ll notice the current status of the domain. Click once more and you’ll change its status. The update will propagate instantly without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can continue with the transfer right away.