Hi Terry,
On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 15:24:14 +0000, Terry Coles wrote:
> The question here is if I migrate to another hosting company will I
> have to cancel the current registration with Nominet or will the
> new provider migrate my domain for me?
Under Nominet, .uk domains have a thing known as an IPS tag or a
registrar tag or just a tag. It is a text string that identifies the
registrar for the domain. "1AND1", for example.
$ whois hadrian-way.co.uk | grep Tag
1&1 Ionos SE [Tag = 1AND1]
In order to transfer a domain to a different registrar, you have to
change the tag.
AFAIK, .uk domains are unique in using tags like this.
Normally, the old registrar should change the tag. There is normally
an option for changing the tag in their control panel interface.
Alternatively, you can ask Nominet to change the tag, by using your
Nominet online services account.
So, the process for transferring registration of a .uk domain to a new
registrar is, roughly:
1. Sign up with the new registrar, requesting to 'transfer in'
your specific domain. The new registrar will set up your
account and billing details. Then they will tell you what their
tag is and wait for the domain to be released to them.
2. Change your domain's tag to that of the new registrar, which
releases it for transfer to that registrar. It is important to
be accurate, else control will pass to the wrong registrar or
none.
3. If the tag was input right, the new registrar will now have
control of the domain. When their systems detect the change of
tag, they will activate your new services.
4. At some point, the old registrar will deactivate your old
services. There will normally be some overlap, to avoid
downtime.
Depending on the registrar, you may be able to set up some aspects of
how things will work on the new registrar before the transfer is
initiated, so that it starts working how you want it as soon as the
transfer is complete.
Regardless of whether they do everything for you or you are doing it
all manually, you'll still need to change the IPS tag to authorise the
transfer.
On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 15:45:38 +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> No, do not cancel. You can either prod Nominet to do it,
> https://www.nominet.uk/transferring-your-domain-name/, or you may
> find the new DNS-serving company will take steps on your behalf.
Ralph has linked to instructions for transferring the domain to
another registrant, not to another registrar. :) However, I believe
you can do both of those things using the Nominet account.
> Apart from that, I have a lot of email on Ionos' servers and I'd
> like to take that with me. (That includes all the mail for all my
> users which number a gargantuan five.)
It might not be the 'best' way, but I migrated my email from my old to
my new IMAP accounts by clicking and dragging it from one account to
the other within KMail! Worked a treat.
Patrick
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