Transferring an existing domain name involves changing the registrar 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 modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared plan from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a tiny padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you want to transfer it away, you will just need to click for the second time and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to sign in and out of different tools.