Transferring an existing domain entails switching the registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register 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 option are locked by default when they are registered.
