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Final price — Hostna is a small business under § 19 (1) UStG, so no VAT is added.
Enter the domain on the domains screen; the transfer price for that extension is shown before anything is submitted.
- Same price as a registration
- The site keeps serving throughout
- You approve it from your own inbox
- DNS can be copied before the switch
- SameTransfer vs registration price
- 12Extensions we can accept
- 0Minutes of downtime a transfer itself causes
Two things your current registrar has to give you
Every transfer needs the domain unlocked and an authorisation code — the string variously called an EPP code, auth code or transfer key. Both come from the provider you are leaving, and both are your right to have. A transfer also cannot start in the first 60 days after a registration or a previous transfer on most gTLDs.
- The domain unlocked at the current registrar
- The authorisation code, valid and not expired
- An address on the domain contact you can still read
A domain is not a website
Transferring the registration moves who bills you for the name. It does not move the site, the mailboxes or the DNS records — those keep pointing wherever they pointed before. If the hosting should move too, the migration is a separate job and one we do for free on eligible plans.
- Files, databases and mailboxes stay where they are
- Existing DNS records keep resolving
- Website migration is handled separately, and free on eligible plans
What happens after you ask
- 1
Unlock and fetch the code
Both from the provider you are leaving. Most panels have them under the domain's settings.
- 2
Start it here
Enter the domain and the code on the domains screen. The price for that extension is shown first.
- 3
Approve the email
The registry writes to the address on the domain contact. Nothing moves until you answer it.
- 4
It completes
Registries take up to five days. The domain resolves normally the whole time.
Not every domain can be transferred on demand: registries block transfers for 60 days after a registration or a previous transfer on most gTLDs, a domain in redemption has to be restored first, and .de follows DENIC's own change-of-provider procedure rather than the gTLD auth-code flow. We will tell you which case applies before taking payment.