Transferring an existing domain entails changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

If you buy a web hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a couple of clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a tiny padlock logo. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you’ll just have to click for the second time 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 will not have to sign in and out of different admin interfaces.