All generic domain name extensions and several country-code ones support a security lock option whose purpose is to hinder unauthorized transfers of active domains. Lots of domain name registry operators that oversee country-code top-level domain names that don’t support this option are in the process of adopting it for better security 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 access to the account with the current domain name registrar can achieve that. New domains are registered with the lock feature enabled intentionally, so as to prevent any unsanctioned transfer attempts. The lock option is among the safety measures for regulating the transfer of existing domains between registrars that have been introduced over the years.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every cloud website hosting plan that we offer, will grant you complete authority over your domains. You’ll find all domain names registered through us neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can change the present status by clicking once more – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You won’t have to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect immediately, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the info that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar company and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with only several clicks of the mouse. All your domain name registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll administer your hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will notice a padlock icon. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can go ahead with the transfer procedure right away. The change will propagate instantaneously, so you will not need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.