Transferring an existing domain name involves switching the registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to snatch your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

With a cloud web hosting plan from us, you will exercise total control over your domain names through our custom-created Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking/unlocking any of the domain names registered here, provided that the particular generic or country-code domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock logo that you’ll find next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking it for the second time will permit you to alter that status. In case you’d like to transfer a domain name to another registrar, you can initiate the procedure straight away. Since unlocking a domain name through your Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation time or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just have to go through the very same steps.