Transferring an active domain entails changing the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer process is standard with most domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to take your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting
If you get a Linux cloud hosting from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just several clicks. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a mini padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you would like to transfer it, you’ll just need to click once again and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the exact same location as the web hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different interfaces.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only several clicks. All your domain registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can initiate the domain transfer right away. The update will propagate immediately, so you will not need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.