Transferring an active domain involves changing the registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Certain 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. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled 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.