Transferring an active domain entails changing the domain registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process is standard with most Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain name. The domain 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is really easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our cloud services, and will take literally two clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be shown in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you will see the domain name’s current status. Click for the second time and you’ll alter its status. The update will propagate momentarily without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can go ahead with the transfer process straight away.