Transferring an active domain entails switching the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud web hosting plan that we offer, will give you absolute control over your domain names. You’ll see all domain names 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 small padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can change the current status by clicking once again – the process is as simple as that. You will not have to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantly, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the details that they display.