This is not required if you have sub-domain with an ISP. Your new or existing site can simply be uploaded to the site where your own domain will be hosted in future, leaving your sub-domain where it is, or discontinuing it.

MCL offer free transfers (to our servers) for clients hosting a site with us, otherwise the name serving fee (until expiry) will be £16.00 +vat (£18.80 inc vat). If a client registers a domain with us, and wishes to transfer the name out to another provider without first hosting the site, the same fee will apply.

Some suppliers of domain names have locked customers into different agreements and may not transfer easily. Please phone or e-mail us if you are having difficulty: 0870 403 0253 - info@mclweb.co.uk

More detailed notes on the transfer process are given below:

Transferring Away from MCL

We will usually only require the new providers IPSTAG (this is something like: PRIMENET) which you can obtain from them.

Send or fax us a confirming letter on your company letterhead with a cheque for £16 + vat (£18.80 inc) and the transfer will normally be completed in 24 hours. The new location will be available after the name servers have been updated.

CLICK HERE to print out a transfer form, you can then post or fax it with your letter of authorization.

Transferring to MCL

We will require a confirming letter from you addressed to your existing provider requesting the transfer to us. We will forward or fax it as necessary to complete the transfer. We will arrange everything else. It should take about 24 hours depending on the existing provider.

The transfer of these domains will take longer than those for .co .uk for both transfer in and away and is handled by Internic in the USA.

Depending on the registrar and any other parties involved the transfer can take anything from 48 hours upwards and we have known them take a month where certain details remain unavailable. The approvals may require a signed letter in a set format, and on company letter heading, by the owner/administrator of the name. This will be sent by fax (if, for example the administration or other contact(s) cannot be verified by e-mail).

The fastest method of transfer depends whether or not the registrar details are changing. The existing ISP can complete the details of the new provider on an on-line form which is sent off by e-mail, if the registrar remains the same.

Otherwise the new provider must complete his own details with the new registrar on an on-line form and forward them. The existing provider will then be contacted to approve the new details. If this is accepted the transfer will take place with final approval being notified.

Approval on letter heading will only be required if the registration authority cannot obtain permission by other means.

The transfer will be complete when the nameserver details change on the Internic database.

Transferring Away from MCL

We will require the following details if the registrar remains the same or we continue to nameserve/redirect for any reason:

1. Written authorization posted or faxed to us on letterheading giving the additional information below and a cheque for £16 + vat (£18.80 inc).

2. Name of administration, technical and billing contracts, address of each plus telephone, fax and e-mail address of each. This is important. A form is available for completion.

3. Domain name primary and secondary servers. These will be names and numbers. Your new provider will give you these.

This is the fastest transfer method, where we as current administrators authorize the transfer. The domain name remains with the same registrar.

If the registrar is changing i.e. the organization that holds the details of the domain name, then your new provider will organize this, they will initiate the change, and we will give our approval once the details are received. This method takes much longer to complete.

As a precaution you should send us a telephone number and contact name for the new provider.

CLICK HERE to print out a transfer form, you can then post or fax it with your letter of authorization.

Transferring into MCL

1. Send or fax us a letter of authorization addressed to the existing domain ISP or admin contact so that we can forward it with our request.

2. We will then supply them with details they require to complete the transfer. Alternatively we can complete a form on-line and they will then be contacted to approve the transfer. The second method can sometimes prove lengthy.

When transferring names to MCL (without a hosting upgrade) there will be a small admin surcharge of £16.00+VAT (£18.80 inc) for name serving for the outstanding period of of the registration. If you are already hosting a domain or have other registrations or business with us there will be no charge.

Links within this section:
GENERAL DOMAIN INFORMATION
NEW US DOMAINS INFO (.BIZ, .INFO, .PRO)
TRANSFERRING A DOMAIN IN TO OR OUT OF MCL

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