Transferring an active domain name entails changing 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 entry modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. 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 Hosting

If you get a Linux hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only several clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a mini padlock symbol. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would like to transfer it, you will just have to click once again and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the very same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different platforms.