Transferring an existing domain name entails changing the company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain. The 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 Cloud Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud hosting from our company, you will be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a few clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a small padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you want 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 administered in the very same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to sign in and out of different tools.