Easily Transfer Your Domain Name to Another Host – Our Guide

So, you are already unsatisfied with your current web host and now want to transfer your domain to a new web host.

If this is the case, never just jump into the process of transferring the domain from the current to the new web host with enough knowledge. It’s like participating in a war without any weapons.

But you don’t need to worry about information, as we are here to provide you with the best step-by-step process for transferring the domain name.

So, let’s get started:

Step-by-step Procedure of Transferring a Domain From one Host to Another

Let’s start with the most comprehensive and easiest guide that you can still follow and succeed even if you are a complete newbie:

1.   Check the Eligibility of your Domain

Have you ever transferred your domain to a new web host before?

If so, make sure it was not in recent times. Because according to the rules of ICANN, you can’t go for transferring the domain if you have done it in a span of 60 days. So, please do simple math before going further.

2.   Find the Best Web host

Another thing you need to be sure of before starting the transfer process is choosing the right web host.

It’s already proven that your previous assumption didn’t do that well, and now, you have to switch to another host. So, on this occasion, take your time and follow our golden instructions to choose the right web host for your website (add a hyperlink to article 22).

3.   Revise Your Personal Info

In this process of transfer, your old and new (both) registrars will contact you from time to time and tally your personal information. So, you must have to update them now. Here are the things you need to update now:

• Full Name
• Address
• Contact Number
• Contact Email
• Business Email etc.

4.   Set Up Email Domain

If you don’t know, emails like you@yoursite.com are email domains (add a hyperlink to article 1) and are used by professionals to send and receive emails related to businesses or sites.

If you also have this, you must also know that it’s given by your old registrar, and your domain’s new registrar has no rights to that email. It means that your email domain will be deactivated.

Now, if your website is working properly, there must be people contacting you on that email. In this case, you have to have a backup that can be used until you create a new email domain with a new registrar.

5.   Unlock Your Domain

Go to the control panel of your website (with the current host) and find the option named “unlock the domain.” Every registrar has a different interface of the panel, but in most cases, you will find this option in “Domain” or “Security.” Without unlocking, you won’t be able to transfer the domain.

6.   Get The Authorization Code

Ask your domain’s current registrar to provide you with an authorization code. With this code, anyone can transfer your domain, so never share this code with anyone. Here are a few common names of this code:

• Auth-Code
• Auth-Info Code
• AuthInfo Code

7.   Go to Your New Web Host

It’s time to go to the host you decided on in the second step. Visit the official site of that registrar and create an account with the exact same info that you entered when you created the previous account, except for your phone number and address (because they might be changed). For this, you’ll have to first enter your domain name along with its TLD (like .com)

8.   Enter the Authorization Code

Now, enter the authorization code you received from your domain’s previous registrar. Double-check the code before entering because if it doesn’t match, you will have to do the whole process again.

9.   Approve the Transfer

After entering that code (successfully), you’ll have to wait until both of your domain registrars contact you. Both registrars will contact you to confirm whether you were the one who initiated the transfer process or not.

Moreover, they’ll also ask you re-check a few things so that they can continue the process after your approval. Take your time and ensure that your entered info (including personal data) is right.

10.  Pay it up

Your new domain registrar will ask you to pay a certain amount to claim authority on your domain. You can also go for those registrars who give the first year for free after the transfer.

11.  Conclude the Transfer

Wait for a few weeks until your domain’s new host hands over the domain to the new registrar. Until that, you can use your domain normally with your older registrar.

12.   Public or Private?

Some registrars will offer you a public server and say that it’s exactly the same as the private one. Well, they are almost the same, but with the public one, your WHOIS information will be shown to the public.

It’s not a big deal if you are running a personal blog or portfolio website, but if you are a businessman, it might cause chaos for you in the future.

Conclusion

After concluding the whole process, make sure you have deactivated your domain with the old registrar. It’s important because a domain can only work with one registrar at a time.

So, here was the most basic guide to changing your web host without changing the domain name. We tried using the easiest words possible.

If you still get stuck somewhere, do let us know!

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