caminoz74 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Hi, As it is often an inconvienience to transfer a domain in terms of down time, I am wondering how I could postpone the the actual transfer of the domain (i.e. request sent to registrar) until a later day/time, for example late Friday afteroon. This way we receive the order, the hosting account is established and possibly transferred the existing site, and then when its convienient we do the final trasnfer of the domain. As I said the order would have already been placed including the payment to transfer to doman. thanks.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS Support Manager WHMCS John Posted July 13, 2011 WHMCS Support Manager Share Posted July 13, 2011 Transferring a domain between registrars shouldn't result in any downtime. There isn't a way to schedule it as it depends upon when the loosing registrar releases the domain and there's no way to predict when that will happen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caminoz74 Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 really! i was always told there is downtime associated with transferring from one registrar to another? sometimes 24-48hrs... perhaps they were referring to changing names server details? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 really! i was always told there is downtime associated with transferring from one registrar to another? sometimes 24-48hrs... perhaps they were referring to changing names server details? Updates to nameservers or even the zone on the current nameservers can take some time to take effect and resolve - partly dependant on the TLD, mostly dependant on the various types, levels and durations of caches. Transferring a domain between registrars does NOT cause any downtime, unless the losing registrar is a. useless b. is the provider of the nameservers c. is utterly cr@p and removes the entries / zone / nameservers on transfer away - there are several that do such abhorent practices - ISTR 1und1 being one of them - the real solution is not to use such monkey's in the first place 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNodashi Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 The main reason why there's downtime with domain transfers is cause the website and email isn't setup at the new hosting by the time the domain transfers across. Thus the client experiences downtime with his website / email, and not the domain as such. So you should basically ensure that the client's website & email exists on your server before you issue the domain transfer request to avoid this problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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