Transferring an active domain name involves changing the company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain name 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 steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch 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 option are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

If you get a website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to administer all domain names registered through us using 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 shown in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a mini padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you wish to transfer it away, you will just have to click once again and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the exact same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different platforms.