Registrar Lock

Understand how the Registrar Lock option functions and in what ways it will help you safeguard your domain.

Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one 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 the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every website hosting plan that we offer, will grant you complete command over your domain names. You will find all domains registered through us conveniently listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a mini padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking once more – the process is as simple as that. You won’t have to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantly, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Administering your domain names with our company is amazingly easy and the registrar lock feature is not an exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domain names registered through our company using the very same Control Panel via which you will manage your hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domain names will be displayed alphabetically and on the right you’ll notice a padlock icon if the particular domain name supports the registrar lock feature. If you click the icon, you will see if the specific domain name is locked or not and you’ll be able to alter this status by clicking again. The status will change right away and you will be able to start the domain name transfer without the need to wait for the change to be displayed on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.