All generic Top-Level Domain extensions and certain country-code ones support a security lock feature whose purpose is to prevent unapproved transfers of existing domains. Many registry organizations that manage country-code top-level domain names that don’t support this feature are in the process of adopting it for better safety and for the convenience of the domain name owners. A domain can be transferred only on the condition that it is unlocked and only a person who has been given access to the account with the current registrar can do that. New domain names are registered with the lock feature activated on purpose, so as to stop any unsolicited transfer attempts. The lock option is one of the safety measures for regulating the transfer of active domains between registrars that have been introduced over the years.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

If you buy a Linux website hosting from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domains registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it, you will just need to click once again and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the very same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different platforms.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with just a few mouse clicks. All your domains will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can go ahead with the domain name transfer straight away. The change will propagate momentarily, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.