Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the domain name registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The 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 generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to take 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 domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

If you purchase a shared website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a few mouse clicks. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a small padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, 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 place as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different Control Panels.