Network Solutions move

[igaven]

If I jump ship from Network Solutions to another registrar will I get the obligatory 24 – 72 hours of darkness on my site? With recent signups I don’t want to do that. But without my service domain on the new registrar I can’t register the new DNS servers or at least it seems. What’s the deal?

To combat my usual double and triple posts I am taking a wire cutters and cutting the power cable at the same time as I enter this post. In advance I am thanking anyone for any help on my registrar question. As soon as my new power cable comes in from NewEgg I will be checking the message board for your response.

Thank you ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhzap

[jmbeach]

Yeah, you may have some downtime when you register your nameservers with your new registrar, but my recommendation to limit that is to transfer to GoDaddy. I did that and had very little downtime - it all depends on how lucky you get, really.

[electricfox]

Contact the recieving registrar first. When I switched from Verio to eNom, eNom helped me move my service domain without any downtime.

[sacha]

I am a registrar, and it is absolutely possible to do a seamless transfer.

You should go to your new registrar and fill-in-the-forms to start the transfer. Don't change nameservers. (If netsol is providing nameservice for some strange reason, this might be a problem) In fact, don't change ANYTHING from your old registration, just the registrar. It will take a few days for the transfer to go though, but there will be no downtime.

If you're within a week of expiring (or already expired!) you will probably have problems. I know this sucks, but you'll probably want to renew with netsol, and then immediately transfer if this is the case.

Sacha

[Brangwyn]

If you're within a week of expiring (or already expired!) you will probably have problems.

Or if the domain is new, many don't allow transfers on domains < 60 days old.