Transferring Domain Names
.uk domain transfer process
Step 1: Download from the website or request by email our Domain Release Form.
Step 2: Obtain from your new host their IPS tag. Our IPS tag is FASTHOSTS.
Step 3: Ask the owner of the domain name to complete the Domain Release Form together with their new host's IPS tag and fax or post the form back to us.
Step 4: Once we have received the Domain Release Form and conducted our security checks, the IPS tag will be released to your new host.
The IPS tag will usually change within a few minutes. However, it can take up to 72 hours.
What happens when the transfer is complete
Biz-hosting will no longer be responsible for maintaining the domain's registration or configuration.
Any website and email services will remain hosted with Biz-hosting, unless you or your new domain registration provider alters your nameserver, A or MX records.
Step 1: Request by email our Domain Release Form.
Step 2: Contact your new domain registration provider to inform them of the transfer. Take this opportunity to confirm their charges and the facilities they offer.
Step 3: Ask the owner of the domain name to complete the Domain Release Form together with the details of their new host and fax or post the form back to us. An email will be sent to the owner of the domain name asking them to confirm the transfer approximately 5 days after the transfer has been initiated.
Step 4: Once we have received the Domain Release Form and conducted our security checks, the Biz-hosting domains team confirm the transfer by unlocking the domain name and providing the owner with their authorisation code.
Step 5: Ask your new provider to request the transfer and advise them the domain name has been unlocked.
Step 6: You will receive an email from the Registrar Tucows asking you to confirm the transfer and provide the authorisation code given to you in Step 4.
Step 7: Wait for the transfer to complete. Your new domain provider will have 5 days to accept your domain name. They will tell you how you can check if the transfer has been completed. If the process has not been successful it will need to be repeated.
Note: You may not be able to transfer an international domain if:
It has been registered for fewer than 60 days.
Its renewal date is within 40 days.
It is locked. (the domain name will remain locked until we receive a Domain Release Form from you.
What happens when the transfer is complete
Biz-hosting will no longer be responsible for maintaining the domain's registration or configuration.
Any website and email services will remain hosted with Biz-hosting, unless you or your new domain registration provider alters your nameserver, A or MX records.
Biz-hosting can transfer the management of your email and web hosting services to another host whilst remaining the main contact for your domains registration.
Step 1: Contact your new host to inform them that you wish to transfer your domain names email and web hosting services to them. Take this opportunity to confirm their charges and the facilities they offer.
Step 2: Obtain your new hosts primary and secondary name server records. For example:
Primary name server: ns1.yournewhost.com
Secondary name server: ns2.yournewhost.com
Step 3: Contact Biz-hosting to advise that you wish to transfer your email and web hosting services to a new host providing us with the primary and secondary name server details.
Step 4: Once we have received the request and conducted our security checks, the nameservers will be updated to your new host.
The nameservers will usually change within a few minutes. However, it can take up to 72 hours.
What happens when the transfer is complete
Biz-hosting will no longer be responsible for any website and email services on your domain.
Biz hosting will maintain the domain's registration or configuration. If you do not wish Biz-hosting to maintain the domain's registration see the articles:
Transferring a .uk domain to another host
Transferring an international (gTLD) domain to another registration provider.
Transferring a UK domain to Biz-hosting should take no more than 72 hours. Once transferred, Biz-hosting will maintain the domain's registration, including billing you for renewal fees.
Step 1: Ask your domain's current registration provider to change the domain's IPS tag to FASTHOSTS, all in capital letters. This will usually take effect immediately but can take up to 72 hours.
Your current domain registration provider will tell you how to change the domain's tag.
Step 2: Contact Biz-hosting to inform them that you wish to transfer your domain name to them, ensuring you include the domain in your communication.
Step 3: Choose which Biz-hosting package you require for your domain from the Biz-hosting website and order online or complete the relevant application form.
Step 4: Once the domain has been changed to the FASTHOSTS tag, the transfer to Biz-hosting is complete.
You can transfer an international (gTLD) domain name to Biz-hosting. If the transfer is successful, Biz-hosting will bill you for all future renewal fees. We will also charge one year's renewal fee when you request the transfer.
This article covers the Biz-hosting side of the transfer only. Your current domain registration provider may have their own procedure, which you must follow.
Before attempting the transfer, you must ensure:
The domain's Administration Contact email address is up to date and is a valid mailbox.
The domain been registered for more than 60 days.
It is not 'on hold' with the current registrar (e.g. because of payment or renewal issues).
It is at least 40 days away from renewal.
Another transfer request has not been made in the past twelve days.
The domain is unlocked and will not be re-locked during the transfer period.
Any whois privacy has been disabled by the current registrar.
Step 1: Contact your current domain registration provider to ask them to unlock your domain, ready for transfer to Biz-hosting.
Important: You must also obtain an AUTH code from your registration provider.
Step 2: Contact Biz-hosting to inform them that you wish to transfer your domain name to them, ensuring you include the domain in your communication.
Step 3: Choose which Biz-hosting package you require for your domain from the Biz-hosting website and order online or complete the relevant application form.
Step 4: Once you have placed your order via the Biz-hosting website Tucows/OpenSRS (our international domain registration partners) will email the domain's registered Administration Contact. The Administration Contact must follow the instructions given in the email within three days, to confirm that they are happy for the transfer to go ahead. If prompted, they should quote the previously obtained AUTH code.
If Tucows/OpenSRS do not receive a reply from the Administration Contact within three days, the transfer will fail.
Step 5: Once they have received the Administration Contact's confirmation, Tucows/OpenSRS will email the domain name's current registrar to request the transfer. Provided you have followed your current registrar's transfer process, they should release the domain name and you will be able to administer it in your Biz-hosting control panel.
Note: The transfer process will take no more than nine days. If it goes beyond nine days, the transfer will fail.
You can transfer the management of your email and web hosting services to Biz-hosting whilst remaining with your current host for the domains registration.
Step 1: Contact Biz-hosting to inform them that you wish to transfer your domain name to them, ensuring you include the domain in your communication.
Step 2: Choose which Biz-hosting package you require for your domain from the Biz-hosting website and order online or complete the relevant application form.
Step 3: Advise your current host that you wish to update the primary and secondary name server records on your domain to:
Primary nameserver: ns0.biz-hosts.com
Secondary nameserver: ns1.biz-hosts.com
The nameservers will usually change within a few minutes. However, it can take up to 72 hours.
What happens when the transfer is complete
Your previous host will no longer be responsible for any website and email services on your domain.
Your previous host will maintain the domain's registration or configuration.
A domain alias is a domain name that is aliased to an existing domain name. The alias domain becomes a duplicate or alternative URL for the original, pre-existing domain name.
If biz-hosting.co.uk is the original domain and biz-hosting.com is the alias domain, then calling www.biz-hosting.com from your browser will display the same website as www.biz-hosting.co.uk.
The same applies to email.
An alias email address can be used for any mailbox on the original domain. Therefore, email to sales@biz-hosting.com can be used as an alias to sales@biz-hosting.co.uk. All email to sales@biz-hosting.com will be collected in the same mailbox as sales@biz-hosting.co.uk.
Aliased email addresses are automatically set up when the domain is added as an alias.
Removing the alias domain name will not affect the operation of the pre-existing domain name. It will however result in the loss of the alias services, unless the DNS information is updated to refer users to a valid website and mailboxes.
The strategy to register multiple domains and alias all the alternative domain names to the original, is commonly used to protect and or monopolise your business identity on the internet.
If you have two domain names that will share the same email accounts and website it is cost effective to alias one domain name to the other. Please contact Biz-hosting detailing both domain names and aliasing will be configured.
Important: Both domain names must be hosted on Biz-hostings' server to activate this option.
All our services our provided by Fasthosts Internet Limited and you may wish to transfer your domain name to your own/your web hosts Fasthosts account.
Step 1: Download from the website or request by email our Domain Release Form (Fasthosts).
Step 2: Ask the owner of the domain name to complete the Domain Release Form together with the details of the Fasthosts account number and username name to which the domain will be transferred. Fax or post the form back to us.
Step 3: Once we have received the Domain Release Form and conducted our security checks, the Biz-hosting domains team confirm the transfer.
Step 4: Fasthosts are requested to transfer the domain from our account into the new Fasthosts account.
What happens when the transfer is complete
Biz-hosting will no longer be responsible for maintaining the domain's registration or configuration.
Biz-hosting will no longer be responsible for any website and email services
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