Transferring an active domain entails switching the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to register your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

If you purchase a Linux website hosting from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a couple of clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a tiny padlock sign. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just need to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are administered in the very same location as the hosting account itself, you will not need to log in and out of different admin panels.