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It's been years since I worked in the domain name space, but as I recall vaguely, part of the registrar accreditation agreement is that you have provisions to t
by mattzito 12y ago
It's been years since I worked in the domain name space, but as I recall vaguely, part of the registrar accreditation agreement is that you have provisions to transition your customer domain names to another registrar in the event you stop being a registrar, voluntarily or involuntarily.
The way this has worked in the past (again iirc) with other companies is that the registrar wholesale migrated their names to another provider who purchased them at a discount.
I've never been through the process personally, but given the quantity of registrars that are going into and out of business from time to time, I'm sure it's a process that's been pretty well standardized.
- ArtDev 12y agoThanks, that is really good to know.
- StavrosK 12y agoI had to move my domains from an unresponsive/dead registrar (NameTerrific). I emailed Tucows (the parent?) and they sent me a domain migration code for the domain. It was pretty simple, luckily.
- seguer 12y agoI had to do the same thing from NameTerrific but got my migration code from the top-level. The worst part is that I was "in contact" with the owner via Twitter, and he assured me that he would totally look into things at some point in the near future..
- StavrosK 12y agoYeah, NameTerrific is completely dead, I'm going to move away ASAP. At least he put up a "we're dead" page.
- ohashi 12y agoYou are correct. Look up RegisterFly for an example of a registrar going under. GoDaddy took over their customers.