All generic extensions and some country-code ones support a security lock feature whose purpose is to block unsanctioned transfers of active domains. Lots of registry organizations that oversee country-code Top-Level Domains that don’t support this feature are in the process of introducing it for the sake of safety and for the convenience of the domain registrants. A domain name can be transferred only on the condition that it is unlocked and only an individual who has been granted access to the account with the current domain name registrar can do that. New domains are registered with the lock feature activated deliberately, so as to hinder any unsanctioned transfer attempts. The lock option is one of the security measures for regulating the transfer of existing domain names between registrars that have been adopted over the years.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

If you buy a web hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a few mouse clicks. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a mini padlock sign. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you want to transfer it away, you’ll just have to click once more and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different admin consoles.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to transfer a domain name 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 several mouse clicks. All your domain name registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will notice a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain name 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 initiate the domain name transfer procedure right away. The update will propagate instantly, so you will not need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.