Transferring an existing domain involves switching the registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to take your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.