Domain Name Transfers
Domain name owner who want to change from current registrar to new registrar must take a process at least 30 days before the expiration date because there is a procedure that will take time. Mostly it will take 5-7 days starting from the first day domain name proceed to transfer.
After domain name transferred successful, besides that your domain name change to the new registrar, the expiration date will be extended 1 year. For example, your domain name will expire 01 April 2019, you should start domain transferring process before 01 March 2019 or not over 10 March 2019. When the transferring process is done, your domain name will be expired 01 April 2020. A little condition about domain transferring is your domain name have to registered not less than 60 days. In case domain name renewal, you also need to wait at least 60 days before starting the process, otherwise the Registrar may not allow you to do that.Please note that Domain Name Transfer is not affect to website access or email usage. It's just change Domain Name Registrar.
There are 2 types of Domain Name Transfer
Something you need before starting Domain Name Transfer
- Check your domain name expiration date. There will be a process between current registrar and new registrar, you should make sure that domain name will not be expired before the process is done. We recommend that you should start transferring process not less than 30 days before expiration date.
- The status of domain name has to be unlocked or active. Usually domain name will be locked in the reason to protect domain stealing. You can ask your provider to unlock it.
- You must have Authentication Code of domain name to complete the transfer process. You can ask for this from your domain name provider.
Domain Name Transfer procedure
Please note that you cannot change any detail of domain name information or name server during transfer process.
Included with your domain
DNS Management
Manage your domain easily via your account. Once logged-in select your domain to manage all aspects of it.
Easily manage:
- Nameservers
- Transfer lock
- WHOIS information
- Privacy protection
Privacy protection
Manage the privacy on your domain by purchasing privacy protection. This will replace your WHOIS data with dummy data.