How to transfer a domain, step by step

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Serban Costin Dunavatu
19/09/2026
How to transfer a domain, step by step - How to transfer a domain, step by step

Transferring a domain sounds scarier than it is. In practice there are three steps at your current provider and one order with us, and your site and email keep working without interruption.

What to prepare first

Unlock the domain in your current provider's panel. Most registries keep domains locked as protection against unauthorised transfers.

Ask for the authorisation code, called the EPP or auth code. It proves the domain is yours. Romanian .ro domains need no code.

Check the contact details, especially the owner's email address: that is where the confirmations go.

What it costs and what you get

A transfer costs the same as a renewal, on every extension. On most extensions the year you pay for is added to the existing expiry date, so nothing you already paid your old provider is lost.

With us, a transferred domain comes with WHOIS privacy, management from the client area and automatic renewal on by default, with reminders 30 and 7 days before expiry.

What happens to your site

Nothing. A transfer changes the registrar, not the nameservers: the domain keeps pointing at the same hosting, and your site and email work exactly as before. You change nameservers separately, whenever you want, if you also move the hosting.

If you are moving the site too, the healthy order is: copy the site to the new hosting and test it, then change the nameservers, and only then transfer the domain.

Two traps

Domains registered or transferred very recently cannot be transferred again for a while, on most extensions. That is a registry rule, not a provider's.

The second one: do not leave the transfer to the last day before expiry. If the domain expires mid-process you end up in the recovery period, and the fees there are far higher than an ordinary renewal.

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