All generic Top-Level Domain extensions and some country-code ones support a security lock functionality whose purpose is to prevent unsolicited transfers of active domains. Lots of registry organizations that oversee country-code TLDs that don’t support this feature are in the process of adopting it for greater safety and for the convenience of the domain name registrants. A domain can be transferred only on the condition that it is unlocked and only a registrant who has been given access to the account with the current registrar can accomplish that. New domain names are registered with the lock option enabled intentionally, so as to block any unwanted transfer attempts. The lock feature is one of the safety measures for controlling the transfer of active domain names between domain name registrars that have been introduced over the years.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

If you purchase a cloud web hosting from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a small padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would like to transfer it away, you will just need to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are administered in the very same location as the hosting account itself, you will not need to log in and out of different admin consoles.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you want 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 several clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking once again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can continue with the transfer procedure straight away. The update will propagate immediately, so you won’t need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.