Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be annulled 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every shared website hosting package that we offer, will give you complete control over your domain names. You will find all domain names registered through our company 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 particular domain name is locked or unlocked and you can alter the present status by clicking again – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the information that they display.