How to transfer your domain FROM ipower
July 23rd, 2008 | by Gwytherinn |Gradually continuing to untangle myself from ipower and their increasingly atrocious hosting. I foolishly registered the domain of the other site I run with ipower. I wasn’t aware of the risks or consequences involved with this at the time but I successfully transfered the domain to name.com last week. I can now proceed with moving the site to a new host without fear of losing the domain, and should probably do it soon.
Most of what I found on the web were people who were NOT succeeding and losing their domains to ipower, or last ditch efforts that involve threatening legal action and such. Never found anything that outlined how to actually transfer the domain, so I figured I’d write something up in terms of how to do it. (To be clear, I don’t know if people who let domains go to ipower or who “lost” them actually did so because of bad, unfair business practices on ipower’s part, or their lack of knowledge as to how to transfer the domains.)
The procedure is pretty simple, granted you have a smooth exchange with ipower’s customer service, which I suppose is part of the problem in the first place! I opened a ticket in their help center while logged into my web site’s account. While I had a good response time the one instance I did call them up, I didn’t have the desire to chance waiting from a half hour to two hours as many other people complained of having to do.
Ipower registers their domains with Tucows, so the interface to manage the domain is located here: https://manage.opensrs.net/.
- I chose a new domain registrar company and reviewed their procedures for transferring a domain to them. Picked name.com as they came recommended on webhostingtalk.com and have free privacy settings. It seems pretty standard for most companies to charge for that.
- I then opened a ticket with ipower’s support requesting that the OpenSRS login information for my domain be provided to me. Within a few hours I had a response and was able to login to manage my domain.
- From here you need to do two things – get the Web Authorization code and unlock the domain so it can be transferred. The purpose of these two things is to protect the domain from fraudulent transfers.
- I then went to name.com and began my transfer request, including the web authorization code when prompted. It was a matter of following their instructions from that point on and it was completed in about a week.
Was pleasantly surprised and relieved to see how simple it was to do when all was said and done. Of course, that was partly dependent on a customer service response that quickly provided me with the right information.
I found this post detailing the process while checking over my information in writing this. Wish I had found it when I was in the middle of things!
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By Justin on Jan 12, 2009
Thank you for the link to my blog and you don’t want to get tangled up with Regfly.com, (formerly Registerfly). Good to see you getting your domains out. I’m going to be blogging more often.