Transferring a domain to another server

To transfer a domain to a new location, you must first check the documentation of the new registrar for ownership and familiarize yourself with its requirements for transferring domains. After that, through the WHOIS service, you need to obtain information about the current domain. If the description contains the string "Status: CLIENT TRANSFER (UPDATE) PROHIBITED" or "Registrar-Lock" - this means that this resource is blocked for transfer by the registrar. To solve the problem, you need to contact him and ask for the unlock.

Before the request for domain transfer itself, it is necessary to check whether the correct e-mail address of the owner or administrator is specified in the WHOIS, and if necessary, contact the current registrar with a request to change it or amend it. Because all requests will be sent exclusively to the address prescribed in the description of the WHOIS service and you can not change it, because these are the rules for the operation of domain zones.

Next, you need to contact the new registrar, announce the transfer of the domain, settle the issue of payment and technical nuances. In order for a domain name to target the new registrar server, it is necessary to enter new information about DNS servers. Preliminary it is necessary to make a backup copy of a resource and settings of all services. The transfer of the domain to another registrar may take several days.

You need to be prepared for the fact that for a while the resource will not work. The process of DNS change should be completed, and the global WHOIS servers should receive new information about the resource. Next, you have to move the domain to a new location, check its operability and file security. After the transfer process is successfully completed, you need to cancel the services of the previous registrar.

In general, there are a lot of ways to implement domain transfer to a new location. Everything depends on the rules and principles of the specific domain zone. For the transfer, you can use auth-code ( authorization code ), which, after a request for domain transfer, gives its owner the current registrar, which you then need to send to the administrator or the owner of the new server. This method is one of the most convenient.

A new registrar, using auth-code, makes a request to transfer the domain to another server. Most often, the e-mail address specified by the domain owner in WHOIS comes from an old or new registrar with a notification of the operation and a request to confirm it. However, this may not happen. In some domain zones, the new registrar sends a confirmation request to the previous registrar, and not to the domain owner. All this is most relevant for domain zones, where they do not use the authorization code for domain transfer. The transfer itself usually takes from 1 to 7 days.

In very rare cases, the change of the registrar is made by the owner himself with the help of a login and password on the resource of administration of the domain zone in a special account. Sometimes a fee is charged for this operation. However, in this case, move the domain and change the registrar is very fast, almost instantly.

In some domain zones, the owner is required to submit a written application for domain transfer, sometimes notarized. There are zones where you can not transfer a domain and change the registrar, because this procedure is not provided in principle. There are also zones where the possibility of transfer to the new registrar is given only after the renewal of the payment of the current domain for another year.