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Can I transfer my domain to another provider?

Yes. You are free to move your domain name to another provider if you wish. There is no charge made by us for TAG transfers or any amendments made to your domains. However, before moving to another domain name provider, always read the small print. Some registration companies will have hidden costs such as TAG transfer fees and administration charges.

If you transfer your domain away from us, then we shall no longer have any control over it and you would need to contact your new provider if you wish to make any further amendments to it in the future and you would also pay your new providers to renew the domain (so you would miss out on our cheap domain fees).

If you just wish to host your domain elsewhere, then it is possible to leave the domain with us and just change the nameservers for the domain, so that the domain points to your hosting company's servers for hosting. You would then pay us for future domain renewal fees. If you wish to change the nameservers (sometimes referred to as DNS) for your domain, then this can be done through your control panel, unless we are hosting the domain at the moment, in which case you would need to contact us and let us know the new nameservers.

.com, .net, .org, .biz and .info domain names cannot be transferred within the first 60 days of being registered, or within 60 days of being transferred from another registrar.

In order to transfer a .com, .net, .org, .biz or .info domain name to another provider, you would need to ask us to unlock the domain and give you the EPP key (Auth code) and then you would need to request that your new providers initiate the transfer from their end. This does not apply to .uk domains. For these, please see the question entitled 'How do I change the TAG for my .uk domain?'

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