Transferring an active domain entails changing the domain registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to steal your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every cloud web hosting package that we offer, will give you absolute control over your domains. You’ll 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 registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the specific domain is locked or unlocked and you can alter the present status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the change to propagate 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 websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the details that they display.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you want to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with only a few mouse clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can initiate the transfer procedure straight away. The update will take effect instantaneously, so you will not need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.