Transferring an existing domain 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 payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic 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 organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to take your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is astonishingly easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our cloud service, and will take exactly two clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be displayed alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you will see the domain’s present status. Click once more and you will change its status. The update will take effect instantaneously without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can continue with the transfer straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only several clicks. All your domains will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can continue with the domain transfer procedure right away. The change will take effect immediately, so you won’t need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.