The old saying, ‘Learning never ends’ has once again been true to me as I have started on my webhosting reseller business at yeboyesrates.com. It is obvious that it takes for learning to venture into a new project but sometimes it seems simpler than it actually is. I have started marketing my services and have attracted a few customers, one of whom needs me to help transfer his domain name from one domain registrar to the other.

 

I have learnt that handing domain names is given optimal security. I heard a sensitive story about the SouthAfrica.com domain name from my business lecturer and thus confirmation to that the domain name transfer business should be handled with great caution. I currently have three web addresses under may account with my preferred domain registrar. They are yeboyesafrica.com, yeboyesrates.com and evangelicalmbabane.info. I’m currently working on transferring sindroe.com, which I believe I have passed the most challenging stage and will soon be uploading a completed design to this domain.

 

You won’t believe how much time it took me to understand the whole process of completing the transfer process. I will below explain each step from start to finish.

 

In a typical transfer process, there are three (could be more) parties involved.

 

  1. The loosing registrar for the target domain name
  2. The administrator of the domain name
  3. The gaining domain who will accept the transfer

 

Please keep this in mind about these three players.

 

  1. They all have unique email contacts to administer the same domain and in many cases geographically apart.
  2. They don’t know each other but they must work together to successfully make the transfer.
  3. The customer should bring together these two registrars who definitely are competing for the domain handling fees.

 

I though paying for a transfer to the new registrar was all I had to do and that they would handle all the processes. To my dismay, there was a lot on my part left undone.

 

Below is the process as it unfolded to me:

 

  1. I purchased the transfer on the new registrar and was approved.
  2. The most difficult part was attaining the Authorization Code because I was dealing with a third party. The current domain administrator was not a registrar but a reseller, so they had to first provide me with the registrar’s domain name, domain name username, and its password so that I can change the administrative email address. The new registrar has to send an email notice of the Transfer ID and its reletive Code and it must reach me before I can confirm the transfer. It demanded commitment to communicate on emails to both registrars, trying to understand and implement each recommendation from either side,  and I eventually found my way through to success. It took me so much time because I had no experience doing this at all.
  3. I then received the Transaction ID and password from the gaining registrar and had to request for the Authorization Code from the loosing Registrar. I succesfully went through the authorization process and started on the next stage.
  4. The gaining registrar then notified me through an email to the losing registrar, requesting the release of the domain name.
  5. Loosing registrar then sent the confirmation email, I then had to confirm that myself with the gaining registrsr.
  6. The loosing registrar then released the domain name.
  7. Done, then domain is now at my gaining registrar account.

 

Easy? Not easy at all in practice as many starters like me may get confused and keep sending email from one registrar to the other and make very little progress. Thanks to registrars for responding kindly to all customer requests even though they could seem senseless.

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