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Change registrar without a second offline

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 comes of bringing the name across

A bonus year on the term

Move a name in and most registrations gain a full additional year beyond the time you already hold — free wherever the ending permits it.

One code starts it off

Unlock the name at its current home, take the EPP authorisation code and put it into our form. Verification done, usually inside minutes.

No blackout, ever

Your current DNS keeps answering for the site and the mailboxes the whole time the transfer runs — there is no outage window to schedule.

Privacy engages on arrival

As soon as the name reaches us, WHOIS privacy takes effect and your contact details vanish from the public record.

The renewal figure shown up front

From day one you know exactly what keeping the name costs, and that rate holds steady each year with no jump after the first.

All DNS in one dashboard

A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT all share one panel, and an edit is live within minutes of saving.

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

Bonus Year

Arrive, and gain a year immediately

Changing registrar normally eats time. This one pays some back. On most standard endings the transfer bolts a full year onto the remaining term, so the name arrives already ahead.

If an ending doesn't qualify for the bonus year, you will hear it from us before you commit — no small print, no surprise at checkout.

  • 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, with everything staying live

Verification turns on one EPP authorisation code — the password proving the name is yours. Unlock it with your old registrar, ask for the code, feed it into our form and approve the follow-up email. That is the whole task.

A transfer only changes who administers the registration, so your existing DNS keeps steering the site and the mail exactly where they already go. No connection breaks while the move finishes.

  • 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 looks like from your side of the screen

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

  1. 1

    Prepare the name at your current registrar

    Unlock it, clear any transfer or privacy lock, and ask for the EPP authorisation code — most registrars email it within minutes.

  2. 2

    Start the transfer with Hosting & Domains

    Type the name in, paste the code and click through the confirmation email we send. Where the ending qualifies, the bonus year is applied automatically.

  3. 3

    Confirm, then leave the rest to us

    Approve it once and the rest is ours. Your DNS keeps answering throughout, so nothing disappears from the internet.

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

One Roof

Keep the name beside your hosting

Once the name is with us it can sit beside the hosting — one login, one 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

Everything a transfer carries with it

  • A bonus year wherever the ending allows
  • Secure verification through the EPP code
  • No downtime — DNS answers throughout
  • WHOIS privacy, free, from the moment it arrives
  • 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, the DNS and the hosting are three different things

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

Your registrar is the company holding the registration and billing you for it. A transfer changes that company and nothing else. Your DNS is the set of records saying where the name points — those records travel across as they are. Your hosting is the server the site actually runs on, and a registrar transfer never touches it.

That separation is why nothing goes dark. The site keeps loading from wherever it already loads from, the mail keeps arriving at whatever mail server already handles it, and the only thing that moves is the name on the paperwork and the invoice.

The other two can change later, whenever it suits you. Point the name at our hosting whenever you are ready and a free SSL certificate issues itself; leave it where it is and the name simply renews with us at the published rate. One decision at a time, in whichever order suits you.

Settle the rest of the move

FAQ

Transfer questions, answered

Will my website or mail drop offline mid-transfer?

No. A transfer only changes which company administers the registration; your DNS records ride across untouched, so the site and the mailboxes keep working from the first minute to the last.

Is the bonus year genuinely free?

On most popular endings, yes — the transfer stacks a full year onto whatever term remains, at no cost. A handful of country-code and specialist endings do not permit it, and if yours is one of them we flag it before you reach the checkout.

What exactly is an EPP code, and who gives me mine?

The EPP code — sometimes called an auth code — is a short password proving you own the name. Ask for it through your current registrar's control panel or support team; it usually arrives by email within minutes.

How long does a transfer take?

Most finish within a few days of your approval. The exact wait depends on the registrar you are leaving and the rules attached to that particular ending. The name stays fully functional throughout.

What has to happen before I start?

Two jobs at your current registrar: unlock the name and remove any transfer or privacy lock, then ask for the EPP code. Registry rules also require the name to be at least 60 days old and not to have changed registrar in the past 60 days — that restriction is the registry's, not ours.

Will my DNS records come across intact?

Entirely intact, and you manage them from our panel once the move lands. Would rather point the name at our hosting? A free SSL certificate installs itself the moment you do.

Ready to bring your name over?

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

Set up in three quick 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

Bundled in at no extra cost

  • 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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