Transferring an active domain name involves changing the company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is 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 steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is truly easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our Linux cloud packages, and will take literally two clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be shown alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you’ll notice the domain’s current status. Click for the second time and you’ll change its status. The change will take effect instantly without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can proceed with the transfer procedure straight away.