Transferring an already registered domain involves changing the domain name registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.