All generic extensions and certain country-code ones support a security lock feature whose function is to prevent unsolicited transfers of active domains. Lots of registry organizations that manage country-code top-level domain names 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 name owners. A domain name can be transferred only if it is unlocked and only an individual who has been granted access to the account with the current domain registrar can do that. New domains are registered with the lock option activated on purpose, so as to stop any unauthorized transfer attempts. The lock option is among the safety measures for regulating the transfer of existing domains between registrar companies that have been introduced over the years.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting package that we offer, will give you full control over your domains. You will find all domain names registered through us neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking once again – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not have to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the info that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will notice a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking once again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can start the domain transfer process straight away. The change will propagate instantaneously, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.