Hi,

When I do a transfer from Godaddy to Enom, enom charges me the price of the domain name and adds one year to the expiry of that domain.
Is there a way to make a transfer without renewing for an extra year ? Just a plain simple free transfer ? :rolleyes:

Thanks

no.

well, there is one way, but Godaddy would have to go out of business first ;-)

well, there is one way, but Godaddy would have to go out of business first ;-)

I would answered 'no', but your 'circumstance' would prove me being wrong... :)

Another way is if your domain's expiration is in more than 9 years. If you'll transfer, no additional year will be added (domain's expiration date can't be more than 10 years).

Yes, these are the only ways to have your domain at another registrar, w/o adding one year.

WOW ! This is really interesting !!
More than 10 years !!! lol

Cool.. Thanks for responding guys :)

There is another way, albeit it's not free.

Renew your domain with your current registrar, then transfer it within 45 days of
its renewal. If you renewed on October 2, then move it between that date up to
November 17.

Hey, you asked. :D

Really ?!!!
Well that would be great !!!
I'll try it with 1 domain name.. I'll renew it with godaddy and transfer it right away... Technically (and according to what you are saying) if I transfer it to enom within 45 days, the expiration date should be the same as the one in godaddy and I should not be charged..

There is another way, albeit it's not free.

Renew your domain with your current registrar, then transfer it within 45 days of
its renewal. If you renewed on October 2, then move it between that date up to
November 17.

Hey, you asked. :D
I have a client who transfered from onlinenic to my eNom reseller account, he renewed the domain first before initiating transfer, because the expiration date was about 2 weeks before transfered, and eNom still added the extra year.

Really ?!!!
Well that would be great !!!
I'll try it with 1 domain name.. I'll renew it with godaddy and transfer it right away... Technically (and according to what you are saying) if I transfer it to enom within 45 days, the expiration date should be the same as the one in godaddy and I should not be charged..

Hold on there. I never said it was free.

There's an ICANN rule where a domain transferred to another registrar within 45
days from its last renewal (or autorenewal to be more precise) will not be given
an extra year. You will be charged whichever way you go, both renewing with your
current registrar and transferring to the new one.

Depending on the losing registrar and if the domain has been eventually moved
out, they might or might not refund you if you ask for it.

I don't see how any of the above would work. The receiving registrar requires payment before initiating the transfer. If you have 10 years and transfer you would pay for the additional year but just get no benefit for it.

I know about that ICANN rule, and even it is on OnlineNIC site, but it didn't applied when the transfered happened in my case. I guess it's all depend on the registrar afterall, and OnlineNIC transfer to enom will still give you the extra years (1 from the losing registrar(onlinenic) + 1 from enom) eventhough the renewal happened within 45 days before transfer.


Hold on there. I never said it was free.

There's an ICANN rule where a domain transferred to another registrar within 45
days from its last renewal (or autorenewal to be more precise) will not be given
an extra year. You will be charged whichever way you go, both renewing with your
current registrar and transferring to the new one.

Depending on the losing registrar and if the domain has been eventually moved
out, they might or might not refund you if you ask for it.

iirc, the ICANN 45 day rule only applies to domains that expired and were auto renewed by the registrar. When the domain is transferred during the auto-renew period, the extra year of the transfer won't be added.

Hi,

There is another way, albeit it's not free.

Renew your domain with your current registrar, then transfer it within 45 days of
its renewal. If you renewed on October 2, then move it between that date up to
November 17.


Actually it only applies if a domain is transferred between registrars within 45 days AFTER its expiration/renewal date, the domain will not have an additional year added to the expiration date.

Hi,


Actually it only applies if a domain is transferred between registrars within 45 days AFTER its expiration/renewal date, the domain will not have an additional year added to the expiration date.


do i hear an echo?

The answer is NO. To be frank, I don't think it's worth the time and effort to even think about ways to work around this, ep. when it is only about 1 single domain. If you are talking about hundreds or thousands of names and lack the funds, then wait till closer to the expiry to avoid paying too much out of pocket in 1 shot.