Moving a Domain to different company

supermonkey

Hi all,

I have a domain hosting with Freeola & I am considering moving it elsewhere.

However, they tell me to do so will incurr an admin fee which is almost as much as the renewal price.

The other option is to let the domain expire & then purchase it elsewhere, but this could leave me without the domain for a few months & potentially someone else could buy it if they get in first.

The domain is essential as I use the associated email addresses.

Can anyone tell me if this is right? I'm more or less forced to stay with Freeola?!

Wywth

supermonkey wrote: »

Hi all,

I have a domain hosting with Freeola & I am considering moving it elsewhere.

However, they tell me to do so will incurr an admin fee which is almost as much as the renewal price.

The other option is to let the domain expire & then purchase it elsewhere, but this could leave me without the domain for a few months & potentially someone else could buy it if they get in first.

The domain is essential as I use the associated email addresses.

Can anyone tell me if this is right? I'm more or less forced to stay with Freeola?!

I'm not disagreeing with what you post, except when you say you are "more or less forced to stay with Freeola".

You explain how you can move if you want. Presumably the admin charge is a one off fee, whereas renewal is an annual fee.

supermonkey

Thanks for replying.

Yes, perhaps forced is too strong a word.

What I mean is that allowing the domain to expire is not really viable.

But comparing a £10 admin fee to leave (& then having to pay another company for the domain hosting) with paying £10 to renew the domain kind of leads to just renewing it.

Wywth

supermonkey wrote: »

Thanks for replying.

Yes, perhaps forced is too strong a word.

What I mean is that allowing the domain to expire is not really viable.

But comparing a £10 admin fee to leave (& then having to pay another company for the domain hosting) with paying £10 to renew the domain kind of leads to just renewing it.

Why are you considering moving it if it's going to cost the same elsewhere? :huh:

You could probably get it cheaper if you shopped around a bit.

What type of domain is it? e.g. a .com (which tends to be a bit more expensive) or a .co.uk (where you usually have to buy 2 years in advance)?

supermonkey

Sorry, what I mean is that I can get the domain cheaper elsewhere, but when I add the on the admin cost of moving the domain, it then works out cheaper to just stay with freeola.

it's a .co.uk

InsideInsurance

How much are you saving by switching provider?

With .co.uk typically being £3 a year surely the amount of time and effort to switch will outweigh any potential cost savings.

Add a couple of zeros to the end and you can start creating a business decision about costs but when your talking such small amounts service/ reliability should come much higher in importance then saving 10p a year for a business.

Are you actually wanting to change the domain registrar or simply where the domain is pointing?

paddyrg

You may find your current registrar is providing more than just registration - for instance you say you use email at the domain, so they are providing DNS and maybe even POP3/SMTP, possibly even some webspace. If none of that means anything to you, then is saving a fiver every 2 years really worth it?

Cycrow

also if you let the domain expire, theres no guarantee u'll ever get the domain back

supermonkey

Thanks for all your replies.

The renwal is £16 for 2 years. This includes "Free" email, DNS, web hosting etc.

The catch is that I can only update the website using a Freeola connection (I have no way to do this) or to pay for VIP hosting which is £3 a month.

I'm sure there must be someone out there who could offer a competitivly priced service without the catch.

paddyrg

£8/year, personally I'd swallow that. Are you saying they also host your website if you can't update it except through them? Frankly if that deal includes hosting and a website design tool, it doesn't stuck that badly. I pay more than that per year just for hosting, and £6/year or so for the domain, dns and email forwarding.

You can get cheaper it is true, but in the race to the bottom corners can be cut. Remember this is your company's presence online, if you rented a high street shop front, would you use the cheapest paint and shop fittings, or spend a little more for something robust.

If you do decide to cut and run, you can transfer the domain to another registrar such as easily.Co.uk, ask them how. You would also need to have an alternative website Set up already or your store front will drop offline when the change happens

Dime_Bar

As it is a .uk domain be aware there is a 90 day suspension of a domain from expiry until it is free to register, plus the fact that if the name or your traffic / links are desirable then it could be caught by someone else before you have chance to register it again.

A fair bit of risk for £10