All generic Top-Level Domain extensions and some country-code ones support a security lock option whose purpose is to prevent unsolicited transfers of existing domain names. Many registry organizations that manage country-code Top-Level Domains that do not support this option are in the process of adopting it for the sake of safety and for the convenience of the domain registrants. A domain can be transferred only on the condition that it is unlocked and only a person who has been given access to the account with the current domain name registrar can accomplish that. New domains are registered with the lock feature activated on purpose, so as to impede any unsolicited transfer attempts. The lock feature is among the safety measures for regulating the transfer of existing domains between registrars that have been adopted over the years.
Registrar Lock in Website Hosting
If you get a website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you wish to transfer it, you’ll just need to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the very same place as the hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different admin dashboards.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you want to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domain names 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 feature, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking once more. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can initiate the domain transfer procedure straight away. The change will take effect instantly, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.