Transferring an active domain involves switching the registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.
