I’ve transferred a number of domains to and from Godaddy, Network Solutions and Register.com
If it is a sale of a domain, normally what I do is setup the nameservers to point to the new owners names servers first, before starting the transfer so they can use the domain right away and any time it takes to transfer doesn’t hold anyone up. The transfer then is just a formality that doesn’t need any rush since the new user can already manage the dns on them.
Most transfers are fairly quick though. ORG domains require an extra step. They want a password first and some registars are a bit dumb on that.
GoDaddy will transfer domains for free if they already are the registrar for that domain.
Thanks for the input I have a couple at Register.com but I’m having a hard time understanding what I’m getting for the extra $$, especially for a hobby.
At work, we have about 30 or so with Register.com. Only two of them are on their “primary” servers which means if I make a change they are supposed to update the server within 15 minutes. These have 1 hour TTL time. The rest are on their “Free” servers which can in theory take up to 47 hours to update (both update once every 24hours 12 hours appart).
The only reason why the corp is with them is due to some of the other country support. Otherwise, I would move them all over to Godaddy.
At $43 per year for the privledge of Register.com… I’d stick to Godaddy.
A 1 hour TTL will be increasing the DNS traffic quite considerably. I tend to set 24 hour TTLs on the grounds that DNS changes are rarely needed and usually planned well in advance, so you can reduce the TTL a few days before the change (to 15 minutes last time I did it) to get a quick change once the server IP is changed and then change it back to 24 hours once you’re sure the change doesn’t need to be undone.
No hassle domain name (takes mere minutes to setup!)
Can register domain name with search engines
Previous visitors notice nothing… all links still function as before
Disadvantages:
Creates another layer which needs to be working for site visits (i.e. godaddy.com goes bye bye and no visitors through domain name even though site is up and working)
Masking masks refer stats (I can no longer tell where people are coming from)
Unable to bookmark individual pages
Possible page rendering glitches with Firefox (looking into work arounds for those)**
** Got that working again… had to change some of my Javascript to be WC3 compliant
Even if they do provide the same type of service, bocking another Registrar would be a violation of ICANN rules. One registar cannot block access to another. It would be foolish for a Registrar to do that.
My guess is that it is network routing related. There have been a lot of overseas networking issues the past couple weeks.
once Ambient thought i had insitaged a DOS attack (yeah right, with a dail up 28k connection?)
and they blocked my IP address…but it was only assigned from my ISP, and so all users of the ISP I was using could not get to their web site.
That’s a common problem. A server in the hosting facility and in the same Class C sub-net as my server got hacked and was being used as a spamming agent. At least one of the big spam blacklisters blocked the complete Class C net which caused me some problems!
I transferred one from Register to godaddy. Took from Saturday afternoon to Monday afternoon. Very smooth, just had to ignore godaddy’s hundreds (it seemed) of offers for additional cost services and register’s tearful entreaty not to transfer, warnings of dire consequencies if I did, and a 30% off renewal offer. Godaddy added a year to the expiration date, hooked it up to the previous DNS addresses and if there was any interruption of service it was very small.