Transferring an active domain involves changing the registrar company that provides the 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 process itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to take your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Hosting

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