Transferring an existing domain name involves switching the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will 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 TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.