Registrar Lock

Interested to learn what Registrar Lock is and how you can use it so as to avoid not authorized modifications to your site?

All generic Top-Level Domain extensions and certain country-code ones support a security lock feature whose purpose is to stop unapproved transfers of active domain names. Many registry operators that supervise country-code Top-Level Domains that don’t support this feature are in the process of adopting it for greater security and for the convenience of the domain name registrants. A domain can be transferred only on the condition that it is unlocked and only a registrant who has been given access to the account with the current domain name registrar can achieve that. New domain names are registered with the lock option activated deliberately, so as to prevent any unapproved transfer attempts. The lock option is one of the security measures for controlling the transfer of existing domain names between registrar companies that have been adopted over the years.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is really easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our shared hosting plans, and will take literally two mouse clicks. All your domain names will be shown alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will notice a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you’ll see the domain’s present status. Click once more and you will change its status. The change will take effect immediately without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can continue with the transfer procedure straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with just a couple of mouse clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain name 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 our company will need to do, so you can continue with the transfer right away. The update will propagate instantaneously, so you will not have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.