Transferring an existing domain entails changing the registrar company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new company. The transfer process itself is standard with most domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to register your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Web Hosting
If you buy a Linux web hosting service from our company, you will be able to manage all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just a few mouse clicks. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a small padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it, you will just need to click once more and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the exact same location as the hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different platforms.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar company and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with just a couple of 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 will administer your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can start the domain name transfer straight away. The change will take effect immediately, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.