{"id":35,"date":"2026-07-12T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/2026\/07\/12\/transferring-a-domain-without-downtime\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:26:26","slug":"transferring-a-domain-without-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/2026\/07\/12\/transferring-a-domain-without-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Transferring a domain without downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">A transfer moves who bills you for the name. Done in the right order, nothing about the live site changes at all.<\/p><h3 class=\"ls-0\">Transfer is not the same as delegation<\/h3><p>You can point a domain at Canvas today and leave it registered elsewhere forever. Transferring only changes the registrar of record. Confusing the two is why people expect a transfer to break their site. It does not touch DNS.<\/p><h3 class=\"ls-0\">Get the prerequisites out of the way<\/h3><p>Registries refuse transfers in some common circumstances, and all of them are avoidable.<\/p><ul class=\"iconlist iconlist-color ms-0\"><li>The name must be more than 60 days old<\/li><li>It must not have been transferred in the last 60 days<\/li><li>The registrar lock must be off<\/li><li>WHOIS privacy may need pausing to receive the approval email<\/li><li>The admin contact address must be one you can read<\/li><\/ul><h3 class=\"ls-0\">Copy DNS before you start<\/h3><p>Recreate every record on our nameservers first and let both sets serve identical answers. Then the transfer is a billing event and nothing more.<\/p><h3 class=\"ls-0\">After it completes<\/h3><p>We add a year to whatever time was left, so nothing is lost. Re-enable privacy, put the lock back on, and check that auto-renew is on: a lapsed domain is far more damaging than a slow one.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transfer changes who bills you, not where the site points. Do the prerequisites first and the live site never notices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[25,26,27],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains-dns","tag-domains","tag-registrar","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}