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Questions tagged [domain-transferring]

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How do I securely buy a domain from a private party?

I have a domain I want. I found the owners contact information, and negotiated a price. Is there a domain brokerage service out there that would help me with the exchange. I don't want to send off money, and never hear from him again, and I'm…
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Does a domain's Glue Records get transferred when I transfer the domain to another registrar?

I have a domain, call it DOMAIN.NET, which is an Internet service provider. DOMAIN.NET has Glue Records that I put in via the existing registrar, which enable the client domains like FOO.COM, BAR.COM, BAZ.COM, etc. to use NS1.DOMAIN.NET and…
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Transfer an account from a 'dead' domain

So - following from my previous question: How do I stop DFSR replication preventing a Domain Controller from advertising Domain Services?, I lost the FSMO DC, and my only other DC was in an unrecoverable state. I've created a new domain to continue…
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How to preserve MX records when switching domain registrars?

This may be a stupid question, but I am not an expert with DNS yet. I have created a new website for a client that I would like to host with Heroku. The client has registered their domain with Network Solutions, but the NS records are pointing to…
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Changing hosts resulting in 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied

I have a problem with switching my project from hoster A to hoster B. There are three parties involed: the old hoster, the new hoster and NetworkSolutions as a registrar. I have a .com and and a .net-Domain. Both had Nameservers set from the old…
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How does Google Domains import your DNS record when you're transferring a domain?

We are transferring a couple of domains to Google Domains to try it out. Before finalizing the transfer, there's a Detect and import my domain's current settings option. Google was able to find all our A, MX, CNAME and TXT records. How is this…
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Is domain-transfer inherently safe for downtime when the name servers remain the same?

I've been reading around this topic towards understanding whether there's some or no chance of downtime during an upcoming domain transfer for 15 live and very critical domains. In our case there are three companies involved: CompanyA is the…
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How can I handle a .org domain on my own nameserver without paying for unwanted services?

I have a dot org domain that I use to run a website. Until now, I had an account onto a hosting+domain provider. Recently I thought to run the website on my own webserver and to handle the domain on my own nameserver. What do I need to do in order…
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I've agreed to buy a domain previously owned, now what?

I wanted to buy some domain already owned by someone else. So I contact it's registrar, negotiated the price and came to a deal. Everything was done via e-mail. Now what? How the actual domain ownership is transfered to me? What information should I…
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Transferred domain to GoDaddy. How to set nameservers without downtime?

I've transferred a domain to Godaddy, keeping the custom nameservers, as I didn't want to change anything. I'll probably need to edit A and CNAME records soon but I can't, as it says "The zone file is unavailable because the domain's set nameservers…
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Testing DNS "health" -- whether domains are pointing to the correct IPs

I'm planning on switching from one registrar to another. Fortunately I've been able to pre-enter the zone information so that when the transfer takes place, everything should behave the same. However, having been burned in the past I'm a bit…
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Problems with GoDaddy domain using Google Apps solution

Some time ago using Google Apps, I bought the domain bindsolution.com. I saw it was a field of GoDaddy. Today I hired the services of GoDaddy hosting but it seems that both accounts are not the same. I need to transfer my domain to be used with the…
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Cheaper way to transfer two domain names to Go Daddy

I, like anyone else, am a cheapskate. The thought of paying $20–$25 per domain to the previous owner plus a $7.49 transfer fee on each to Go Daddy makes me cringe a little, because it would be only about $22 to just register the domains from scratch…
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How can I move a load of zone records from a web based system to text based one?

I have a few domains with Dreamhost where I have set a load of records using their web based domain name system, and I've like to move them to another provider that lets me enter info directly as a text file for their name server, bind 9 to use. (If…
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transfer of fmso roles to an sbs 2003 computer from original DC running server 2003

here is the outline that was done about 4 years ago. 1) we had a Windows 2003 server pdc running in the organization 2) i added sbs 2003 to the network about 3 years ago, at the time i transferrd the fsmo roles from the Win2k3 box to the sbs2003…
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