Transferring an existing domain involves switching the company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud website hosting from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a tiny padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you’ll just need to click for the second time and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the very same location as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different user interfaces.