Transferring an active domain name involves switching the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.
