I need to get away from Heart
Jeff Gaines wrote:
I need to get away from Heart
All you need Heart to do, is change
the IPSTAG on your domain to "MYTHIC-BEASTS"
That doesn't alter anything immediately, but it allows you to "pull" the domain over to MB
In article <l0t24aFi58aU4@mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns wrote...
Jeff Gaines wrote:
I need to get away from Heart
All you need Heart to do, is change
the IPSTAG on your domain to "MYTHIC-BEASTS"
That doesn't alter anything immediately, but it allows you to "pull" the domain over to MB
I had to look that up (Nominet does things its own way): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Provider_Security
You can, of course, have a domain registered with one registrar/host and served
by another. The easiest way is to look up the nameservers on your preferred host (Mythic Beasts in your case) and edit the settings on the current domain registrar to use those. That means every lookup, whether web or email (or whatever) is directed immediately to Mythic Beasts, just as if you'd registered
the domain with them. It's a quick fix which should work quickly, and globally
within 24 hours. I do this when my excellent small ISP (Liquidsix) doesn't happen to offer the registration of esoteric top-level domains, but I still want to host with them.
You could also change the MX record in the Heart DNS records to point to Mythic
Beasts, but the nameserver change has less options for screw-ups - e.g. you'd want the SPF TXT record (etc) consistent.
Philip Herlihy <PhillipHerlihy@slashdevnull.invalid> wrote:
In article <l0t24aFi58aU4@mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns wrote...
Jeff Gaines wrote:
I need to get away from Heart
All you need Heart to do, is change
the IPSTAG on your domain to "MYTHIC-BEASTS"
That doesn't alter anything immediately, but it allows you to "pull" the domain over to MB
I had to look that up (Nominet does things its own way): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Provider_Security
The process for a .uk: https://www.heartinternet.uk/support/article/how-do-i-transfer-my-uk-domain-name-away-to-a-new-host.html
For another domain: https://www.heartinternet.uk/support/article/how-do-i-transfer-my-gtld-domain-name-out-of-my-account.html
You can, of course, have a domain registered with one registrar/host and served
by another. The easiest way is to look up the nameservers on your preferred
host (Mythic Beasts in your case) and edit the settings on the current domain
registrar to use those. That means every lookup, whether web or email (or whatever) is directed immediately to Mythic Beasts, just as if you'd registered
the domain with them. It's a quick fix which should work quickly, and globally
within 24 hours. I do this when my excellent small ISP (Liquidsix) doesn't happen to offer the registration of esoteric top-level domains, but I still want to host with them.
You could also change the MX record in the Heart DNS records to point to Mythic
Beasts, but the nameserver change has less options for screw-ups - e.g. you'd
want the SPF TXT record (etc) consistent.
You can do all of that but you're still paying Heart for the domain registration. The OP wants a clean break.
Although the above may be useful to minimise downtime, ie get everything set up at the new place so the switch doesn't change the hosting arrangements. But not necessary and may overcomplicate it.
Theo
As I remember the thread, the OP was saying that Heart weren't coming through,
and had already taken payment for another year. Changing nameservers is a quick (and very easy) way to get things working NOW with the new hosting provider. Easily updated later - and he has a year to do that. Domain registration and hosting are independent; we usually go to the same service provider for both, but in some circumstances (like a stalled transfer of registration) this is an easy workaround.
I believe if you do a domain transfer you get the time on your current registration plus an additional year (that you pay the new provider for).
In other words, you may have 364 days left on the registration but you can transfer today and you get 364+365 days before the next renewal.
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