Transferring an active domain name entails switching the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new registrar company. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to register your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Website Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every website hosting plan that we offer, will grant you total control over your domains. You will see all domains registered through us neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the particular domain is locked or unlocked and you can modify the current status by clicking once again – the process is as straightforward as that. You won’t have to wait for the change to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the details that they display.