Transferring an active domain name involves changing the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new company. The transfer process itself is standard with most domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.