Transferring an active domain name entails switching the registrar company that handles 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 process is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting package that we offer, will grant you absolute authority over your domains. You will see all domains registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a tiny padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can update the present status by clicking once again – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You won’t need to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the information that they display.