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Switch registrar without a second of downtime

Move a name to Hosting & Domains and most endings collect a free year. The handover runs on one EPP code, and your DNS answers the whole way through.

Begin Your Transfer

+1 yr

Free where the ending allows

Zero

Downtime during the switch

EPP

One code seals it

24/7

Support on call throughout

Worth Switching

What you gain by bringing the name over

A bonus year on the term

Bring a name in and most registrations pick up a whole extra year on top of the time you already hold, at no cost wherever the ending allows it.

One code starts it off

Take the lock off the name at its current home, collect the EPP authorisation code, and drop that code into our form. Verification is normally finished inside minutes.

No blackout, ever

For the entire length of the transfer, your current DNS carries on answering for the site and the mailboxes. No outage window needs scheduling at all.

Privacy engages on arrival

The moment the name lands with us, WHOIS privacy switches on and your contact details drop out of the public record.

The renewal figure shown up front

You know from day one exactly what holding onto the name costs, and the rate stays where it is each year, with no leap after the first.

All DNS in one dashboard

One panel covers A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT records, and any edit goes live minutes after you save it.

A site packed up and carried to its new host without the visitors noticing

Bonus Year

Arrive here, and gain a year at once

Changing registrar usually eats into your time. This one hands some of it back. On most standard endings, the transfer bolts a whole year onto whatever term remains, so the name turns up already ahead.

Where an ending doesn't qualify for the bonus year, we tell you before you commit to anything. Nothing hides in small print, and checkout springs no surprise.

  • A full additional year of registration
  • Stacked on top of your existing term
  • Free wherever the ending permits
  • The renewal figure visible from the start
The filtering that absorbs an attack well before it reaches the site

Secure And Quick

One code, and everything else stays live

Everything hangs on a single EPP authorisation code, the password that proves the name is yours. Unlock it with your old registrar, request the code, feed that into our form, then approve the follow-up email. That is the entire task.

All a transfer changes is who administers the registration, which leaves your existing DNS steering the site and the mail exactly where they already go. Not one connection breaks while the move completes.

  • Unlock the name, take the code
  • Put it in, confirm, finished
  • DNS answers the whole way through
  • Privacy engages the moment it lands

The Route

What a transfer actually looks like from where you are sitting

Three short jobs on your side; everything after them happens on ours.

  1. 1

    Prepare the name at your current registrar

    Unlock it, lift any transfer or privacy lock, then ask for the EPP authorisation code. Most registrars send that by email within minutes.

  2. 2

    Start the transfer with Hosting & Domains

    Type the name, paste in the code, then click through the confirmation email that reaches you. Where the ending qualifies, we add the bonus year without being asked.

  3. 3

    Confirm, then leave the rest to us

    Approve it once and the remainder falls to us. Your DNS carries on answering all the while, so nothing drops off the internet.

A key resting on a keyboard, for the certificate every domain here is issued

One Roof

Park the name next to your hosting

With the name here, it can sit right next to the hosting: a single login, a single bill, and a free SSL certificate that appears the moment the name points at our servers.

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  • Free SSL installs on its own
  • One login and one invoice
  • Every DNS record in one place
  • Auto-renew keeps the name alive

Bundled In

What the transfer brings along with it

  • A bonus year wherever the ending allows
  • Secure verification through the EPP code
  • No downtime — DNS answers throughout
  • Free WHOIS privacy, live from the day it lands here
  • The renewal figure visible before you commit
  • Full control of every DNS record
  • Auto-renew, so the name never lapses
  • Help available at every step

Clearing It Up

A registrar, your DNS and your hosting are three separate things entirely

Nearly all the nerves around a transfer come from treating them as one thing.

Your registrar is the company that holds the registration and sends you the bill for it. A transfer swaps that company out and nothing more. Your DNS is the set of records saying where the name points, and those records travel across exactly as they stand. Your hosting is the server the site truly runs on, and a change of registrar never lays a finger on it.

That separation is exactly why nothing goes dark. The site carries on loading from wherever it loads from today, mail carries on reaching whatever server already handles it, and the only thing that shifts is the name on the paperwork and on the invoice you receive.

Those other two can change later, at whatever moment suits. Aim the name at our hosting once you are ready and a free SSL certificate issues itself; leave everything where it stands and the name just renews with us at the published rate. One decision at a time, taken in whichever order works for you.

Sort out the rest of the move

FAQ

Transfer questions, answered

Does the website or the mail go offline mid-transfer?

No. All a transfer changes is which company administers the registration. Your DNS records travel across untouched, which leaves the site and the mailboxes working from the first minute right through to the last.

Is the bonus year genuinely free?

On most popular endings, yes. The transfer stacks a whole year on top of whatever term remains, and it costs nothing. A handful of country-code and specialist endings will not allow it, and where yours is one of those we say so well before you reach the checkout.

What is an EPP code, exactly, and who hands mine over?

An EPP code, which some registrars call an auth code, is a short password that proves the name belongs to you. Request it through your current registrar's control panel or support team. It normally arrives by email within minutes.

How long does a transfer take?

Most wrap up a few days after your approval. How long it takes exactly depends on the registrar you are leaving and on the rules attached to that particular ending. All the while, the name goes on working.

What has to happen before I start?

There are two jobs at your current registrar. Release the name from its lock, lift any transfer or privacy hold, then ask them for the EPP code. Registry rules also require that the name be at least 60 days old, and that it has not changed registrar within the past 60 days. That restriction is the registry's, not ours.

Will my DNS records come across intact?

They come through entirely intact, and once the move lands you manage them from our panel. Would you rather aim the name at our hosting? A free SSL certificate installs itself the instant you do.

Ready to move your name across to us?

Begin at our domain search — a bonus year where the ending allows it, and a site that never blinks while the move runs.

Start Your Transfer

Moving a domain sounds like surgery and is closer to changing who sends the invoice. One code, one confirmation click, and the records answer exactly as they did before. Underneath it is NVMe storage, LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime commitment written into the SLA rather than the brochure.

Meant for owners gathering names scattered across old registrars. Every registration, renewal and transfer is quoted with its renewal figure attached, WHOIS privacy costs nothing on any registry that allows it, and the single step nobody can undo, the registration, is flagged before payment rather than after.

What changes when a name moves, and what stays put

A transfer changes one thing: the company that holds the registration. Unlock the name where it lives now, ask that registrar for the EPP authorisation code, paste it into our form and approve the confirmation email, and that is your entire part of the work. The DNS records travel across as written, so the site keeps loading from wherever it loads today and mail keeps reaching whatever server already handles it. Where the ending allows it, a full year is added to the term you already hold, and WHOIS privacy switches on as the name lands.

Redundancy is dull and it is exactly where the money goes: our London datacentre, more than one route to the internet, conditioned power, and failover that happens without anyone raising a ticket.

What a transfer costs, and what comes back

The right plan interests us more than the biggest one. The price is on the page, renewals follow it, and nothing turns up at checkout that was hidden on the way in. A transfer is billed at the published renewal rate and buys a year of registry time, so like any registration it cannot be handed back; what it leaves behind is that year, stacked on the term you already hold.

Most names arrive further from expiry than they left, because the extra year stacks on whatever term remains, so moving early wastes nothing. Renewal afterwards follows the published rate for that ending, the same figure a fresh registration pays, with no quiet transferred-in tier waiting in the wings.

Checking whether the name is still free before somebody else asks

The panel your DNS lands in

Once the name is here its records answer from redundant nameservers in our London datacentre: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT on a single screen, edits live within minutes, auto-renew a single switch. Aim it at hosting on this account and a free certificate issues itself; aim it somewhere else entirely and nothing here objects.

Maintenance runs to our timetable, mostly overnight: security patches, panel updates and PHP releases arrive without you booking a window for them.

  • EPP code in, confirmation approved, finished
  • Every DNS record on one screen, edited in minutes
  • Daily backups you restore yourself, in one click
  • SSL issued free and auto-renewed

Good to Know

More that's built in

Nothing goes dark mid-move

The records keep resolving from the first minute to the last, so readers and mail notice nothing. What moves is the paperwork.

Scale up without relocating

Move up whenever the site asks for it; files, settings and address stay exactly where they are.

Free to leave any time

Your data leaves in the same standard formats it came in, and we will help with the move if it comes to that.

Speed set up for you

Every site lands on NVMe with server-side caching already running, leaving no tuning for you.

Certificates in the price

Each domain comes with a self-renewing certificate, so encryption never appears in the upsell column.

We move it for you

Coming from another host? Our engineers move the site across free, usually inside 24 hours.

Getting Going

Getting going takes three steps

  1. 1

    Check it can move

    Registry rules block a name under 60 days old, or one that changed registrar in the past 60 days. Nothing else is likely to get in the way.

  2. 2

    Unlock and start it

    Lift the transfer lock at your current registrar, ask for the EPP code, and begin the transfer here; the extra year applies itself wherever the ending allows one.

  3. 3

    Approve, then leave it

    Click the confirmation email. Your DNS keeps answering while the registries do their part, and privacy is on before the name reaches your panel.

In Every Plan

Thrown in without an extra charge

  • Renewal pricing visible before checkout
  • A free year added on most extensions
  • WHOIS privacy comes on when it arrives, at no charge
  • a 99.9% uptime SLA that pays credits when missed
  • Humans answering support 24 hours a day
  • NVMe storage standard, never an upsell
  • Renewal billed at your original sign-up rate
  • HTTP/2 enabled on LiteSpeed servers

Still Curious

Questions that keep coming up

My domain expires in days: transfer now or renew first?

Renew first, then transfer. A transfer takes days rather than minutes, so one started against a term with hours left risks the name expiring mid-move and dropping into redemption, where recovery costs several times the renewal. Renewing loses you nothing either: where the ending allows an extra year, that year lands on top of the term you have just paid for.

Can I move several names at once?

Yes, though each still needs its own EPP code, since the code proves ownership of that particular name and there is no bulk shortcut past it. Expect them to finish at different times: registries work at their own pace, and a .com and a country code begun an hour apart routinely land a week apart. Once they are all here they renew from one dashboard on one invoice, which is usually the point of gathering them.

Does the price move at renewal?

The same rate and the same amount. There is no introductory price here that quietly doubles once you have settled in.

Can a transfer be refunded if I change my mind?

Not once it has completed: the fee has bought a year of registry time, and no registrar anywhere can hand that back. If a transfer fails instead, through a mistyped code, a lock nobody lifted or a name too new to move, nothing changes hands and our desk tells you which rule stopped it. Nothing here holds the name in either case, and once the registry's 60-day hold lapses it can move on again.

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