Transferring an already registered domain name entails changing the registrar company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to register your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.