All generic extensions and several country-code ones support a security lock functionality whose purpose is to impede unsolicited transfers of active domains. Lots of registry organizations that supervise country-code top-level domain names that do not support this feature are in the process of adopting it for greater safety and for the convenience of the domain registrants. A domain can be transferred only on the condition that it is unlocked and only a registrant who has access to the account with the current domain name registrar can achieve that. New domains are registered with the lock feature enabled intentionally, so as to stop any unsolicited transfer attempts. The lock feature is among the security measures for regulating the transfer of existing domains between registrars that have been introduced over the years.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you will 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 see a tiny padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you wish to transfer it away, you will just have to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are administered in the very same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have registered a domain through us and you’d like to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in your account and you will notice a mini padlock icon on the right side of each domain name there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then go ahead and initiate the domain transfer straight away without waiting for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will take effect instantly without you or us having to do anything else.