Transferring an already registered domain entails changing the registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud hosting plan that we offer, will grant you complete authority over your domain names. You’ll see all domain names registered through our company neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the particular domain is locked or unlocked and you can alter the present status by clicking again – the process is as simple as that. You won’t have to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect immediately, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the info that they show.