I've got a handful of domains registered at NSI for a few years already. Renewal time is coming around the corner and I'm wonder what's going to happen to the "creation" date when I transfer it over to another registrar. What I mean is that a domain I have was registered sometime in 1999 (NSI). When I transfer it over to OpenSRS or some other registrar, will that 1999 date carry over or will the new creation date be the date the transfer took place.

I recently transferred a domain from NSI, to Tucows, and the created date stayed as the original one.

Record last updated on 05-Jul-2001.
Record expires on 31-Mar-2002.
Record Created on 31-Mar-2000.

I recently transferred a domain name from NSI to 000domains and it shows the original "creation date" (Record Created on 18-Aug-2000)

Cool, thanks a lot guys.