Transfer in
Move your domain to us, gently.
Same yearly price as registering, and the transfer adds a year to your existing expiry — you don’t lose any time. Most .uk names move in 24–48 hours; .com and friends usually settle in 5–7 days. We do the legwork; you click one email.
What a transfer costs
A transfer is one year of renewal — the same price as registering — and your existing expiry rolls forward by a year.
Includes free DNS, WHOIS privacy, and SSL when the site lives with us.
How it works
Two flavours of transfer, depending on the extension. Find yours below.
If your domain ends .uk
The IPS Tag swap (24–48 hours)
UK names don’t use auth codes. Instead, your current registrar holds an “IPS Tag” against the name. Change the tag to ours and the domain comes across.
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Sign in to your current registrar.
Find the domain in their control panel — somewhere like “Manage domain” or “Domain details”.
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Change the IPS Tag to ENOM.
The setting is usually labelled “IPS Tag”, “Registrar Tag”, or “Change registrar”. Type ENOM in capitals.
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Fill in the form below.
So we know it’s on the way and can match it up when it lands.
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Done.
Your old registrar releases the name to us — usually within hours. We email you to confirm and bill you the renewal price; your expiry rolls forward by a year.
If your domain ends .com, .net, .org, .io, .shop…
The auth-code transfer (5–7 days)
Outside the UK registry, you need to unlock the name and hand over a secret code — ICANN’s way of proving you really do want to move it.
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Unlock the domain at your current registrar.
Look for “Transfer lock”, “Registrar lock”, or just “Lock” in their domain settings and turn it off. If it’s greyed out, ask their support to unlock it.
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Request the auth code (also called EPP code or transfer secret).
Most registrars show it on screen or email it. It looks like a short jumble of letters and numbers. Keep it private — anyone with it can move the domain.
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Fill in the form below — paste the auth code.
We start the transfer at our end the moment we see it. (You can submit without the code if you’re still chasing it — we’ll wait.)
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Click the approval email.
ICANN requires us to send a confirmation link to the address on the WHOIS record. Click approve within 5 days — that’s the one step we can’t do for you.
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Sit tight — usually 5–7 days.
Your old registrar has a window to object; once it closes, the transfer completes automatically. We email you the second it lands and your year is added.
Tell us about your domain
One short form — we’ll acknowledge by email within a working day and kick off the transfer at our end.
Common snags
I can’t find my auth code. Your current registrar has it — search their support docs for “EPP code” or “auth code”, or open a support ticket asking them to send it. They legally have to.
I bought the domain less than 60 days ago. ICANN locks domains for 60 days after a registration or a previous transfer. There’s no way around it — you’ll need to wait until the 60-day window is up.
It’s about to expire. Renew it at your current registrar first, then transfer once it’s safely got a year on it. Transferring at the last minute can cause the renewal to drop.
I don’t want any downtime. Transfers don’t change DNS — your site keeps resolving the whole time. We only change the registrar; the nameservers (and your hosting) carry on as before unless you ask us to move them too.
My WHOIS email is wrong. The approval email goes to whatever address is on the WHOIS record. Update it at your current registrar before starting, or tell us and we’ll help.
Prefer to register a new name instead? Search a domain, or ask us anything.