Transferring an active domain name entails switching the company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to steal your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

If you buy a shared website hosting plan 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 only several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a mini padlock sign. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you want to transfer it away, you will just have to click for the second time and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the very same location as the hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different user interfaces.