How to transfer my domain away from InternetBS to ETNHost?

Here at ETNHost, we recommend that you keep your domain name where you host your website. It is easier to manage, fewer passwords to worry about, better security, and last but not least this way you get a piece of mind. You will receive regular notifications from us, via e-mail, reminding you when the renewal date for your domain name is due, so you will not miss to renew it and risk your website becoming inaccessible.

Extra:

Once the domain name is transferred to us, you will get one year of a free domain name renewal as a bonus.

Transfer of domain names may take anywhere between 3 and 10 days until completion. Before initiating a domain name transfer of a domain name registered with InternetBS , you will need to make sure that the following conditions apply:

• The domain must be more than 60 days old. This is not an ETNHost, nor InternetBS , specific rule, but rather a rule implemented by ICANN, the organization that governs domain registrations. 
• The domain has been unlocked for transfer from InternetBS . 
• The domain is showing your current e-mail for the admin contact in the Whois database as that is where the authorization email will be sent. You can find the valid administrative e-mail for your domain name by using the WHOIS lookup tool available at: http://whois.domaintools.com/
• The domain must not be too close to its expiration date, as InternetBS  will normally auto renew domains 15 days prior to expiration. 

Notes:

The 60-day holding period only applies to domain transfers between registrar providers when a domain is either newly registered or recently transferred. If you just ended site services with another provider (without transferring the domain to another registrar), then the 60-day hold shouldn't apply at all. If the hold did apply, it still shouldn't prevent you from pointing it to another host service to start up a new site.

To prepare your domain name to be transferred away from InternetBS you must engage in the following steps:

1. Log into your InternetBS account.
2. Unlock your domain name 

To unlock the domain which you would like to transfer simply click on the domain, then find the Expert tab and click on it, after which select Locking/Unlocking. 

3. Disable the Domain Privacy/Whois Protect feature and Update your Contact Information if necessary

Before initiating a transfer you have to make sure that your contact information is up-to-date, and more importantly your administrative contact email address, since there you will receive an email verifying the transfer.

• To update your administrative contact information click on the Domain name for which you will be making the changes.
• Find the Standard tab and click on the Update contact (WHOIS). Make the necessary changes to your contact information.
• From there you will also be able to disable your Domain Privacy fully or partially. If you choose to disable it partially only your administrative contact and some other contact information essential to the transferring process will be shown in the Whois database. 

4. Obtain EPP/Authorization code

To obtain the EPP/ Authorization code for the domain which you would like to transfer simply click on the domain, then find the Expert tab and click on it, after which select EPP/auth info option after which you will see the EPP key which you have to copy and provide to the new registrar. 

To transfer a .UK domain name, please contact Internet.bs at http://www.internetbs.net/en/domain-name-registrations/contact.html choosing the most suitable for you way of communication, and ask them to change the domain’s IPS tag to ENOM.

After completing the preparation, let some time pass (a day or so) before you initiate the transfer. You can also check the Whois info for your domain. You can do this at http://www.whois.net or http://whois.domaintools.com or similar sites, to make sure everything shows up and is correct.

Once ready, you can now submit a transfer request for the domain:

• Start within your ETNHost account .
• Proceed with posting an order for the domain name transfer by clicking on the Domains tab.
• Upon the request of the domain name transfer, you will need to enter the Authorization/EPP code. Once the code is entered then the process will begin.

Note that you will also receive a transfer approval email to the listed administrative contact for the domain. After the transfer is confirmed the losing registrar (InternetBS) has 7 days to release the domain. If everything is OK, the domain will be released and added to the Domains Section in your ETNHost account.

Notes:

Once you start a domain name transfer you must remember that you can't change your DNS, Whois info, contact info and so on.