Transferring an existing domain involves switching the domain registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record updates through the new company. The transfer procedure 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 involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud hosting plan that we offer, will grant you complete command over your domain names. You’ll find all domains registered through our company neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a tiny padlock icon next to them. By clicking the icon, you can see if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can alter the present status by clicking once again – the process is as straightforward as that. You won’t need to wait for the change 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 information that they show.