All generic TLD extensions and several country-code ones support a security lock functionality whose purpose is to impede unsolicited transfers of existing domains. Many domain registry organizations that supervise ccTLDs that do not support this feature are in the process of introducing it for the sake of security and for the convenience of the domain registrants. A domain name can be transferred only if it is unlocked and only a registrant who has been given access to the account with the current domain registrar can do that. New domain names are registered with the lock feature enabled on purpose, so as to block any unwanted transfer attempts. The lock feature is among the safety measures for regulating the transfer of active domain names between registrar companies that have been adopted over the years.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

If you order a Linux cloud website hosting service from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only several mouse clicks. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a tiny padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just need to click once more and you will be all set. 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 won’t have to sign in and out of different user interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just a few mouse clicks. All your domain names will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can continue with the domain transfer procedure straight away. The change will propagate instantaneously, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.