Registrar Lock
Interested to discover what Registrar Lock is and how you could use it so that you can avoid not authorized changes to your domain?
Transferring an active domain name entails switching the domain registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new company. The transfer process itself is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to take your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.
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Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through us is extremely easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our
cloud web hosting, and will take exactly two mouse clicks. All your domains will be shown in alphabetical order in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you’ll see the domain’s present status. Click again and you’ll change its status. The change will propagate momentarily without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can initiate the transfer right away.
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Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you would like 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 only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domain registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer procedure straight away. The change will propagate immediately, so you won’t have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.