Transferring an active domain name entails switching the company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared web hosting package that we offer, will grant you absolute authority over your domains. You’ll find all domain names registered through us neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking once more – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You won’t have to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect immediately, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the details that they display.