Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the domain name registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain. The lock can be removed 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 when they are registered.