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Steps involved in a .COM, .NET or .ORG domain transfer

nospam@example.com (DomainHELP) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:19:55 -0500

(These steps in transferring a .COM, .NET or .ORG domain to a new registrar also apply to .BIZ and .INFO or any domain within a Top Level Domain that runs on EPP)

In these explanations "losing registrar" means the domain registrar the domain is currently using before the domain transfer, the "gaining registrar" is the domain registrar you are transferring the domain to.

Here are the steps:

The steps involved in a .CA domain transfer

nospam@example.com (DomainHELP) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:15:09 -0500

.CA domains are administered by CIRA: the Canadian Internet Registration Authority who sets out how .CA domains are to be transferred.

There are two things to consider when transferring a .CA domain:

1) Transferring a .CA domain to a new registrar

How can I park or monetize my domain names?

nospam@example.com (DomainHELP) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:28:57 -0400

Domain parking refers to monetizing otherwise unused domain names via pay-per-click advertising.

There are numerous companies that exist soley to monetize "parked" domains in this manner. Most domain registrars "park" their customers' idle and unused domains and monetize them, often keeping the revenues for themselves.

If you have domain names simply "parked" with your registrar, you may decide you want to monetize them yourself. If you do, you need to select a domain parking company and then configure your domains so that web traffic to them goes to the parked page provider's system.

When the internet doesn't see an update to your zonefile

nospam@example.com (DomainHELP) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:15:59 -0400

Every once in awhile we see a situation where somebody changes the IP address one of their hostname (A records) points at and the rest of the world still sees the old address.

Common causes of this include:

You forgot to increment the zone's serial in the SOA record (*thwap*). Increment the serial and reload the zone again.
The nameserver you are using to check your hostname is a resolver / recursor that already has this record in its DNS cache and is answering with its cached data.
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