How to transfer a .co.uk name, email and website to Novara

From Novara Support Knowledgebase

First you will need to transfer the registration:

After putting the order through on register.ie:

1. Send an email and fax to the company who originally registered the domain name for you. In this email instruct the company to change the IPS tag to TUCOWS-CA. This will normally take a couple of days but will then transfer over.

2. If the transfer does not take place the request to transfer to the TUCOWS-CA tag should be sent directly to Nominet (who supervise the .co.uk domain name). This request should be written on the headed paper of the owner of the domain. Send a fax to 00 44 1865 332288 for the attention of Customer Support. Include your previous correspondence with the company who originally registered the domain for you. For further information please see http://www.nominet.org.uk/howto/change-isp.html

Once this is done we can transfer the hosting as below:

1) When you purchase hosting from our selves you should receive an email with the log in details of your hosting account.

2) Get a copy of your site either from a backup you have at home or by downloading a copy from your current hosts.

3) Using the login details you have recieved from us you can upload your site either by using an FTP program such as dreamweaver or by logging into your hosting account and using the file manager.

4) Set up any email accounts you require on your hosting account. make sure any existing ones are recreated on our account.

5) Get our technicians to mirror the dns records on the nameservers currently in place so that our nameservers point towards your existing hosting.

6) As we are now authoritative for the domain we can change to our own nameservers at this stage. There is no interruption to your site or email while this is happening.

7) Allow 24 -48 hours for propogation.

8) Contact our technicians and ask them to point the mail and website records towards the account you have set up with us. There is no interruption to your website and less than an hours interruption to your email. No email is lost.

9) After an hour change your settings in outlook for each address to the following:

Incoming and outgoing servers:

mail.yourdomain.com

Username:

youremailaddress@yourdomain.com

Password:

The password you set for that address on our hosting system.

10) Your website and email are fully transferred.