Technical detail on domain name transfer

leonard.s · 01-09-2006, 04:32 AM

Hi,

I am trying to transfer my domain to another ISP. What actually happens during the transfer? I heard the transfer can take days. My worry is that nobody will be able to access my web server, and emails will not come in during the transfer.

What is the usual way to mitigate this? Is there any guide about this?

Boby · 01-09-2006, 05:01 AM

This is not a very complete article, but there are some interesting tips, read also throught the comments:
http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/10/25/changing_web/

The transfer time depends on what settings you have to do. Mine took about a day, but that was because of the DNS. Ususally you transfer all fils and settings to the new domain, test it and then quickly updated the DB and start using the new server. I have downgraded my virtual server package so I pay just the domain name and made a DNS transfer from the virtual server to the new root server.

Boby

leonard.s · 01-11-2006, 04:55 AM

Thank you for your help. The link you provided gave me a keyword to search for (TTL). And I found an article in netadmintools.com titled DNS/BIND TTL Settings During Domain Migrations (for some reason LQ does not allow me to post a link).

I think it's something that's useful to know during DNS migration.