On Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:45:38 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> No, do not cancel. You can either prod Nominet to do it,
> https://www.nominet.uk/transferring-your-domain-name/, or you may find
> the new DNS-serving company will take steps on your behalf.
OK. Thanks.
> Yes, though it may be more SSH based, e.g. SFTP or rsync over SSH.
Yes you are right. I use Filezilla for such tasks, and that does the
necessaries. It's SFTP for Ionos.
> sorry, I just meant they have a good reputation in one field, ISP, so
> I'd expect their other offerings to be good. Worth checking that page.
Yes I did look at that page, but I thought that was simply what they provide
for their broadband customers. I see now that they will probably sell those
services standalone.
> > What I really need is a company that will migrate everything to their
> > service rather like utility companies do :-)
>
> It's too messy to cope with all the vagaries of companies so it's left
> for you to do.
Yes. and that's the rub. First find a company who's pricing isn't too high (my
Ionos contract has always been more than I need) and then find one that will
deal with the migration.
Even Ionos isn't very good in that respect. Some years ago I allowed one of
their sale droids to talk me into a cheaper package. He claimed that there
were tools to migrate the data to the new servers. When I tried to do it, I
found that their tools only migrated the website and I would have had to start
all over again with email. I told them to put it all back.
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