A transfer adds a year to whatever time is left rather than replacing it. Check the name below and we will tell you whether it is ready to move before you start.
Most failed transfers fail for a reason you could have seen beforehand. This checks the two that matter before you pay for anything.
The first two happen at your current registrar. We cannot do them for you, and any registrar that claims it can is not describing a transfer.
Registrars lock domains against transfer by default. Find the domain in their control panel and switch that off - it is usually called registrar lock or transfer lock.
Also called an EPP code or auth code. Your current registrar has to give it to you; they are not allowed to refuse. It sometimes arrives by email rather than on screen.
Enter the domain, pay for the transfer year, and give the code when the cart asks for it. We do not ask for it before that point.
You will get an email asking you to confirm. After that it takes five to seven days - that gap is an ICANN rule and no registrar can shorten it.
Moving more than one? The bulk transfer page checks a whole list at once. Check a list instead.
Named rather than totted up into a number. They are included for as long as the domain is with us, apart from the email trial, which is clearly a trial.
Full record control - A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV - in a panel that does not charge for the privilege.
The registrar lock that stops the domain being moved out without your say-so. On by default.
Point the name at another site or another domain, with or without masking.
Two mailboxes on your own name, free for the first 90 days. Keep them or do nothing and they stop.
Renew, update and manage nameservers across a portfolio without opening each one.
Everything in one place, including the things other registrars bury three menus deep or sell back to you.
Transfer already rejected once? Tell us the domain and we will work out which of the four usual reasons it was.
Five to seven days once you have approved it. That is set by ICANN, not by us, and any registrar telling you it is instant is describing something else. Your site and email keep working throughout - a transfer moves the registration, not the DNS.
No. A transfer adds a year on top of whatever is already there. If you have eight months left you end up with twenty.
A password proving you are entitled to move the domain. Your current registrar must supply it on request. We ask for it in the cart, at the point it is actually needed - not on this page.
Almost always one of four things: the domain is still locked, the code was wrong or expired, it is within 60 days of being registered or of a previous transfer, or the contact email on the domain is out of date and the approval never arrived.
Not yet. ICANN blocks transfers for 60 days after registration and after any previous transfer. Nothing gets round it, including asking us nicely.
Not if nothing else changes. The transfer moves who the registration is held with; your DNS records come with it. We check them against your current setup before it completes so nothing quietly drops.
One year at the normal registration price for that extension - the same figures on our pricing page. There is no separate transfer fee, and we do not charge to transfer a domain out later either.
Yes, and it is much less work. The bulk transfer page checks a whole list at once and tells you which are ready and which still need unlocking.
Tell us who the domain is with now and we will talk you through where they hide it. We have seen most of the control panels.
