Transferring an active domain involves changing the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to take your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through us is exceptionally easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our Linux cloud web hosting, and will require exactly two clicks. All your domain names will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you’ll see the present status of the domain name. Click once more and you will change its status. The change will propagate immediately 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 continue with the transfer right away.