Transferring an existing domain name involves changing the company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to register your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

With a Linux shared website hosting package from our company, you’ll exert absolute control over your domain names through our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you would like, including locking/unlocking any of the domain names registered through our company, on the condition that the particular generic or country-code domain extension supports this option. Clicking on the padlock icon that you’ll see next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once again will permit you to edit that status. If you wish to transfer a domain name to another domain name registrar, you can initiate the process momentarily. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect instantaneously, no propagation period or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just have to follow the exact same steps.