Transferring an active domain involves switching the company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain name. 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 functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you’ve registered a domain name through us and you’d like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in your account and you will see a tiny padlock icon on the right side of each domain there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the present status by clicking on it once more. You can then proceed and start the transfer straight away without waiting for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will propagate instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.