How To Transfer a Domain to a New Registrar
Your domain is the actual .com or .net, etc., address that you register with a domain registrar. It is completely separate from your website – your domain merely points to it and situations may occur where you would like to transfer your domain name, usually because you have a problem with the current registrar. This process is fairly simple, but because of the potential for fraud a domain name is of course far more valuable then the location it points to – it requires discrete steps that are followed exactly.
You must be the administrative contact of the domain – This step is sometimes overlooked and can provide for lots of headaches. A domain registrant transfer will not work if you are not listed as the administrate contact on the domain’s whois.org page. There is no way around this, so if you find yourself trying to move a domain for someone else you have to have the owner of the domain establish you as the administrative contact first.
Sign up with your new registrar – Create an account at your new domain registrar and state that you are the owner of a domain you would like transferred to this new registrar. The new company will notify the old company.
Reply to your old registrar – When they hear from the new company, your old registrar will email the administrative contact of the domain (hopefully you) confirming that you did, in fact, make this request. This is for security reasons.
Once you have confirmed with your old registrar that you did initiate the domain transfer, your domain will be seamlessly transferred to the new company.
