Hey everybody! It’s me again, the weird one who talks about Doctor Who and breaking things all the time.
I’m here to help.
Have you ever transferred a domain from one registrar to another? Has it ever gone easily?
I can already read your mind. It’s like we’re connected. If you said yes to the first question, you probably said no to the second question.
I know how domain transfers work, I’ve done them for customers before as well as transferred a domain myself. I’m not going to lie, it’s a pain.
First, you have to update all your WhoIs information to ensure that your contact information is up to date. Then, you have to unlock or release the domain you want to transfer at your current registrar. Then you have to get the EPP code and provide that to the registrar you are transferring to.
Then come the emails. There are probably about a million emails you have to go through (give or take a few hundred thousand) from both registrars. You will probably get an email from your current registrar asking if this is really what you want to do. You will probably have to reply to that email or log in to confirm this. Then you will get an email from your new registrar confirming that this is what you want to do.
Then you wait 5-10 days. Then you get some more emails. Then the old registrar tries to offer you a discount to stay.
Eventually, with enough tenacity, you will get that confirmation email from your new registrar confirming that the transfer has been completed.
Phew.
That’s a lot. If at any point in that process, you miss an email, or take too long to respond, or it doesn’t go through, you (or your registrar) can cause the transfer to fail and you have to start all over. I honestly believe that domain transfers are the leading cause for people being prescribed medication. (I could be wrong there, but if you have ever had a domain transfer fail, you get where I’m coming from.)
We saw that problem. We heard your frustrations. We understand and empathize with you. We’ve been there. We know that everything is out of your hands because it’s out of our hands too. All we can do is wait for the emails and let the registrars do their thing, and that is annoying.
So, we set out to fix it. And thus, Domain Concierge was born. It was like a technician’s fairy tale. Do you hate domain transfers? Do they make you Hulk furious? Let us do it for you.
With domain concierge, you give us the keys and all you have to do is sit back and relax while we handle the transfer and registrar negotiations for you.
As the weather warms up, this is a dream come true. You can sit on the beach, or at the lake, or take your family to Disney and not worry that you’ll miss one of the important emails from your registrar. Heck, if you’re up for it, you could take a total stranger to Disney and share the love; maybe someone who wrote a super informative and mildly entertaining post about InMotion Hosting’s Domain Concierge service. (You can reach me through the comments section.)
The best part of this? You can do it all from your AMP login. Yep. You don’t even have to pick up the phone and call us. A few clicks and we’ll take it from there.
I mean, you can pick up the phone and call us. Support is here 24/7/365. Call us if you have a question, or if you’re lonely, you know, whatever. We’re here for you.