Transferring an existing domain involves switching the domain name registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting
If you purchase a Linux cloud hosting from our company, you will be able to manage all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a mini padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just need to click once more and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different interfaces.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing your domains with us is incredibly easy and the registrar lock feature makes no exception. If you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to manage the domain names registered through our company using the very same Control Panel via which you will manage your hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domain names will be displayed alphabetically and on the right you’ll see a padlock-like icon in case the given domain name supports the registrar lock option. If you click on the icon, you will find out whether the specific domain name is locked or not and you will be able to modify this status by clicking again. The status will be updated momentarily and you will be able to start the transfer process without the need to wait for the change to appear on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.