{"id":16050,"date":"2024-05-20T05:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T05:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/getting-started-guide\/shared-hosting-quick-start-guide\/how-to-lock-unlock-my-domain-name\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T09:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:41:34","slug":"how-to-lock-unlock-my-domain-name","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/docs\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-lock-unlock-my-domain-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Lock \/ Unlock My Domain Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A&nbsp;domain&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;&#8220;locked&#8221;&nbsp;status&nbsp;is&nbsp;thought&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;protected&nbsp;from&nbsp;unauthorized&nbsp;domain&nbsp;transfers. A&nbsp;domain&nbsp;name&nbsp;must&nbsp;have&nbsp;the&nbsp;status&nbsp;&#8220;Active&#8221;&nbsp;in&nbsp;order&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;transferred. Unless&nbsp;you&nbsp;plan&nbsp;to&nbsp;transfer&nbsp;the&nbsp;name&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;new&nbsp;registrar,&nbsp;the&nbsp;domain&nbsp;should&nbsp;ideally&nbsp;be&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;&#8220;locked&#8221;&nbsp;status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current domain registrar can be contacted for changing the domain name status and in case there are any issues with locking\/unlocking your domain, you can contact your web host\/registrar for seeking assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\u00a0your\u00a0domain\u00a0is\u00a0registered\u00a0with\u00a0Hostvento,\u00a0you\u00a0can\u00a0modify\u00a0its\u00a0status\u00a0to\u00a0lock\u00a0or\u00a0unlock\u00a0by\u00a0contacting\u00a0us\u00a0by\u00a0phone,\u00a0email,\u00a0or\u00a0live\u00a0chat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/\">Hostvento\u00a0<\/a>has\u00a0a\u00a0skilled\u00a0group\u00a0of\u00a0experts\u00a0to\u00a0manage\u00a0any\u00a0kind\u00a0of\u00a0domain\u00a0problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;domain&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;&#8220;locked&#8221;&nbsp;status&nbsp;is&nbsp;thought&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;protected&nbsp;from&nbsp;unauthorized&nbsp;domain&nbsp;transfers. A&nbsp;domain&nbsp;name&nbsp;must&nbsp;have&nbsp;the&nbsp;status&nbsp;&#8220;Active&#8221;&nbsp;in&nbsp;order&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;transferred. Unless&nbsp;you&nbsp;plan&nbsp;to&nbsp;transfer&nbsp;the&nbsp;name&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;new&nbsp;registrar,&nbsp;the&nbsp;domain&nbsp;should&nbsp;ideally&nbsp;be&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;&#8220;locked&#8221;&nbsp;status. The current domain registrar can be contacted for changing the domain name status and in case there are any issues with locking\/unlocking your domain, you can contact your web host\/registrar for seeking assistance. If\u00a0your\u00a0domain\u00a0is\u00a0registered\u00a0with\u00a0Hostvento,\u00a0you\u00a0can\u00a0modify\u00a0its\u00a0status\u00a0to\u00a0lock\u00a0or\u00a0unlock\u00a0by\u00a0contacting\u00a0us\u00a0by\u00a0phone,\u00a0email,\u00a0or\u00a0live\u00a0chat. Hostvento\u00a0has\u00a0a\u00a0skilled\u00a0group\u00a0of\u00a0experts\u00a0to\u00a0manage\u00a0any\u00a0kind\u00a0of\u00a0domain\u00a0problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16050","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20433,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16050\/revisions\/20433"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}