Transferring an active domain involves changing the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a few clicks. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a mini padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you wish to transfer it, you’ll just need to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different Control Panel tools.