Transfer a domain name
Move your domain name here, with a year added on most extensions.
Bring it with you. The move takes two small steps at your current provider and, on most extensions, costs one year's renewal and adds that year to the name. A .nz, .co.nz or .uk move, like any other where no year is added, is free.
One read of the public registry record tells you whether the name can move today and what the move costs.
How a transfer runs
Four steps, and two of them take a minute at your old provider.
You do two small things at the provider that holds the name today, and we do the rest. Your site and your mail keep answering the whole way through.
Unlock the name where it lives now
Every registrar has a transfer lock switch on the domain, set on by default as a protection. Turn it off, and while you are there turn any privacy service off so the registry can read the record. Ours goes on free the day the name lands here, and stays on for as long as you own it.
Ask them for the authorisation code
The code proves the name is yours to move, and your current provider has to give it to you. Most send it to the registered email within minutes.
Paste the code here and confirm the move
We read your zone first and copy every record we find, and only then ask the registry for the name, so your website and your mail keep answering from the first minute of the move to the last.
The registry gives your old provider five days to approve
They can approve it the moment they see it and many do. Either way the name lands here, with a year added on most extensions, and we email you when it is done.
harbourside.com
- Registrar lock
- Unlocked
- Authorisation code
- Registry window
- Five days, or approved the moment they see it
- Registration added
- One year
On most extensions a transfer costs one year's renewal. The renewal changes only if the registry changes its price, with 30 days' notice.
What comes with it
Everything travels with the name, and the extras are free.
A transfer here is where the name picks up everything we include with a domain, and all of it is on before you first look at the panel.
Every DNS record, copied first
We read the zone and copy what is there before the registry is asked for anything, so your website and your mail keep answering the whole way through.
A year added, on most extensions
On most extensions the year you pay for goes straight onto the name, on top of whatever time it already had, so a transfer buys you time rather than spending it. A .nz, .co.nz or .uk transfer, like any other where no year is added, is free.
WHOIS privacy, switched on
Your name, address, phone number and email are replaced in the public record the moment the name lands, free, on every extension that allows it.
The renewal price, up front
You see the renewal price before you move. It changes only if the registry changes its price, and we tell you 30 days before.
harbourside.com
- WHOIS privacy
- On
- Renews automatically
- On
- DNSSEC
- On
- A year added
- One year
This is the panel the morning after a transfer. Everything on this list is free with the name and already switched on.
Every extension
Read the move, the renewal and a fresh registration in the same line.
All 1,989 extensions we carry, priced in your own currency, so you can see what a move costs and what the name costs every year after before you commit. The renewal changes only if the registry changes its price, with 30 days' notice. Type to find yours.
Popular
| Extension | First year | Renews at | Transfer |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | US$11.30 | US$11.30 | US$11.30 |
| .net | US$13.90 | US$13.90 | US$13.90 |
| .co | US$34.77 | US$34.77 | US$34.77 |
| .org | US$13.90 | US$13.90 | US$13.90 |
| .io | US$56.51 | US$56.51 | US$56.51 |
| .app | US$18.25 | US$18.25 | US$18.25 |
| .dev | US$15.64 | US$15.64 | US$15.64 |
| .ai | US$88.69 | US$88.69 | US$88.69 |
| .me | US$21.73 | US$21.73 | US$21.73 |
| .online | US$32.17 | US$32.17 | US$32.17 |
| .shop | US$34.77 | US$34.77 | US$34.77 |
| .store | US$46.08 | US$46.08 | US$46.08 |
| .xyz | US$15.64 | US$15.64 | US$15.64 |
| .site | US$32.17 | US$32.17 | US$32.17 |
| .tech | US$55.64 | US$55.64 | US$55.64 |
| .info | US$25.21 | US$25.21 | US$25.21 |
| .biz | US$22.60 | US$22.60 | US$22.60 |
| .cloud | US$25.21 | US$25.21 | US$25.21 |
| .digital | US$36.51 | US$36.51 | US$36.51 |
| .studio | US$35.64 | US$35.64 | US$35.64 |
| .agency | US$28.69 | US$28.69 | US$28.69 |
| US$28.69 | US$28.69 | US$28.69 | |
| .group | US$25.21 | US$25.21 | US$25.21 |
| .life | US$32.17 | US$32.17 | US$32.17 |
| .live | US$29.56 | US$29.56 | US$29.56 |
| .world | US$36.51 | US$36.51 | US$36.51 |
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Transfers, answered plainly.
Five things people ask before they move a domain name here, answered in full.
Ways To Reach UsFor most extensions, a transfer costs one year's renewal and adds that year to your domain. You see the renewal price before you move. The renewal changes only if the registry changes its price, with 30 days' notice. Transfers of .nz, .co.nz, .uk and other extensions where no year is added are free.
Yes. We read your zone and copy every record we find before the registry is asked for the name, so your visitors and your mail keep getting the same answers throughout the move.
The registry gives the provider you are leaving five days to approve the move, and they can approve it the moment they see it. We email you the moment the name lands.
Two things: the transfer lock turned off, and the authorisation code for the name. Both are in their control panel and they have to give you the code when you ask.
A registry holds a new name at its first registrar for sixty days, so start the move on the day that clears. The check at the top of this page reads the record and tells you the exact date.
Bring your domain name here. Let's go.
- Every DNS record, copied first
- WHOIS privacy, switched on
- The renewal price, up front