Transferring an active domain entails switching the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic steps 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 name registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to register your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting package that we offer, will grant you full command over your domains. You will find all domains registered through us conveniently listed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a tiny padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking once more – the process is as straightforward as that. You will not need to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantly, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the details that they display.