Transferring an already registered domain involves switching the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure is standard with most domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a standard 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 name. The domain 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 Website Hosting

If you order a website hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a mini padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just have to click once again and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the exact same location as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to sign in and out of different user interfaces.