All generic Top-Level Domain extensions and certain country-code ones support a security lock option whose purpose is to stop unauthorized transfers of existing domain names. Many domain registry organizations that manage country-code TLDs that don’t support this feature are in the process of introducing it for greater safety and for the convenience of the domain name owners. A domain name can be transferred only if it is unlocked and only a registrant who has access to the account with the current registrar company can achieve that. New domain names are registered with the lock option activated deliberately, so as to stop any unauthorized transfer attempts. The lock feature is one of the security measures for regulating the transfer of active domains between registrar companies that have been adopted over the years.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every cloud hosting package that we offer, will grant you absolute control over your domains. You will see all domain names registered through our company neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking again – the procedure is as simple as that. You won’t need to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the details that they display.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with just several clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking once more. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can go ahead with the domain name transfer process right away. The update will take effect momentarily, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.