Registrar Lock

Transferring an already registered domain entails switching the registrar company that handles the domain 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 generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.