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Switch Registrars

Switch registrar without losing a single second

Transfer a name to HostingFast and most extensions collect a free year. One EPP code handles the handover, and your DNS never stops answering.

Begin Your Transfer

+1 yr

Free where the extension allows

Zero

Downtime during the switch

EPP

A single code seals it

24/7

Support on call throughout

Worth Switching

What moving the name here actually gains you

A bonus year on the term

Bring a name across and most registrations pick up a full extra year on top of the time you already hold, free of charge wherever the extension permits.

A single code kicks it off

Set the domain to unlocked wherever it lives now, fetch the EPP authorisation code, and paste it into our form. Verification is normally over within minutes.

No blackout, ever

For the whole time a transfer runs, your existing DNS carries on answering for the site and the mailboxes. Nobody has an outage window to schedule.

Privacy engages on landing

The moment a name reaches us, WHOIS privacy comes on by itself and your contact details drop out of the public record.

Renewal pricing shown up front

You know from day one precisely what holding the name costs, and the rate holds level every year afterwards, with no leap once year one ends.

All DNS in a single dashboard

A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT records all share one panel, and whatever you edit is live inside minutes.

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Bonus Year

Arrive here and collect a whole year straight away

Switching registrars usually eats time. This one hands some back. Across most standard extensions the transfer bolts a full year onto whatever term remains, which means the name turns up already ahead.

Where an extension does not qualify for that bonus year, we will tell you before you commit to anything. No fine print, no surprise waiting at checkout.

  • A full additional year of registration
  • Stacked on top of your existing term
  • Free wherever the extension permits
  • Renewal pricing visible from the start
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Secure And Quick

One code, and everything stays live throughout

One EPP authorisation code carries the verification: it is the password proving the name belongs to you. Take the lock off at your old registrar, ask them for that code, feed it into our form, then approve the follow-up email. Nothing else is required of you.

All that changes in a transfer is who administers the registration, which leaves your existing DNS steering the site and the email exactly where they already go. Not a single connection breaks while the move finishes.

  • Unlock the domain, grab the code
  • Drop it in, confirm, finished
  • DNS answers the whole way through
  • Privacy engages the moment it lands

The Route

How a domain transfer looks from your side of the screen

Three quick jobs for you — everything after that runs on our side.

  1. 1

    Prep the name at your current registrar

    Unlock it, lift any transfer or privacy lock sitting on it, then ask for the EPP authorisation code. Most registrars email that within minutes.

  2. 2

    Kick off the transfer with HostingFast

    Enter the domain, paste the code, and click through the confirmation email that arrives from us. Where the extension qualifies, that bonus year gets applied on its own.

  3. 3

    Confirm, then let us run the rest

    Approve it once and the rest sits with us. Your DNS answers right through, which means nothing of yours disappears off the internet.

A padlock standing in for the free SSL certificate on every plan

One Roof

Keep the name sitting beside your hosting

With the name sitting here, it can live right alongside the hosting: one login, one bill, and a free SSL certificate that fires up the moment the domain starts pointing at our servers.

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  • Free SSL installs on its own
  • A single login and invoice
  • Every DNS record in one place
  • Auto-renew keeps the name alive

Bundled In

What a transfer brings across with it

  • A bonus year wherever the extension allows
  • Secure verification via EPP auth code
  • Zero downtime — DNS answers throughout
  • Free WHOIS privacy from the moment it lands
  • Renewal pricing visible before you commit
  • Full control of every DNS record
  • Auto-renew to stop the name expiring
  • Help available at every step

Clearing It Up

Three separate things: registrar, DNS, and where it is hosted

Most transfer anxiety comes from treating them as one.

Your registrar is the outfit that owns the registration record and sends the bill. A transfer replaces that outfit, and stops there. Your DNS is a set of records pointing the name somewhere, and every one of them crosses over entirely unchanged. Your hosting is the server your site genuinely runs on, and no registrar transfer ever touches that.

Nothing goes dark precisely because of that separation. Your site carries on loading from wherever it already loaded, the mail carries on arriving at whichever mail server already handled it, and the only thing shifting is the name on the paperwork and on the invoice.

Both of the others can shift later, whenever suits you. Aim the name at our hosting on the day you are ready, and a free SSL certificate issues itself without prompting. Or leave it exactly as it stands, in which case the domain just renews here at the published rate. Take one decision at a time, in any order.

Take care of the remaining move

FAQ

Transfer questions, answered

Does my website or email go down during the transfer?

No. What moves is administrative: which company holds the registration, nothing more. Your DNS records travel across as they are, so both site and mailboxes stay up from the first minute to the last.

Is the bonus year really free of charge?

On most popular extensions, yes. The transfer stacks a full year onto whatever term is left, at no cost to you. A small number of country-code and specialist extensions do not allow it, and where yours is one of those, we flag it well before checkout.

Where do I find my EPP code, and what is it?

An EPP code, which some people call an auth code, is a short password proving the name is yours. Ask your current registrar for it through their control panel or their support team, and it usually lands by email within minutes.

What's the timeline on a transfer?

Most finish within a few days of your approval. Exactly how long depends on the registrar you are leaving and on the rules attached to that particular extension. Right through it, the domain stays fully functional.

What has to happen before I start?

Two jobs at your current registrar. Set the domain to unlocked, strip off any transfer or privacy lock, then request the EPP code. Registry rules add two conditions: the name has to be at least 60 days old, and it must not have switched registrars in the past 60 days. That restriction belongs to the registry, not to us.

Will my DNS records come across intact?

Nothing gets lost. Every record arrives as it was, and after the move you edit them in our panel. Would you sooner send the name at our hosting? Do that and a free SSL certificate installs itself immediately.

Ready to move that domain across?

Begin at our domain search — a bonus year where the extension allows it, and a site that never blinks while the move runs.

Start Your Transfer

Moving a domain sounds like open-heart surgery and is closer to changing who posts the invoice. One code, one confirmation click, and the records carry on answering exactly as they did before. Under the hood you get NVMe storage, LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime commitment written into the SLA, not a brochure.

Designed for owners consolidating names spread across old registrars. Registrations, renewals and transfers are all quoted with the renewal figure attached, WHOIS privacy costs nothing wherever the registry allows it, and the one step nobody can undo — the registration itself — is flagged before you pay rather than after.

What changes when a name moves, and what does not

A transfer swaps a single thing: the company holding the registration. Unlock the name where it lives now, ask that registrar for the EPP authorisation code, paste it into our form and approve the confirmation email — that is your entire share of the work. The DNS records travel across as written, so the site keeps loading from wherever it loads today and mail keeps arriving at whatever server already handles it. Where the extension permits it, a full year is added to the term you already hold, and WHOIS privacy switches itself on as the name lands.

Redundancy is dull, and it is exactly where we spend: our London datacentre, multiple routes to the internet, conditioned power, and failover that fires without anyone raising a ticket.

What a transfer costs, and what it buys back

We would sooner sell you the right plan than the largest one. Pricing lives on the page, renewals track it, and nothing appears at checkout that was hidden on the way in. A transfer bills at the published renewal rate and buys a year of registry time, so like any registration it cannot be handed back — what it leaves behind is the year itself, stacked on the term you already hold.

Most names arrive further from expiry than they left: the bonus year stacks on whatever term remains, so moving early throws nothing away. Renewal afterwards follows the published rate for that extension — the same figure a fresh registration pays, with no quiet transferred-in tier waiting in the background.

Hunting down the right domain name before someone else takes it

The panel your DNS lands in

Once the name is here its records answer from redundant nameservers in our London datacentre: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT on one screen, edits live within minutes, auto-renew a single switch. Point it at hosting on this account and a free certificate issues itself; point it at somebody else's servers and nothing here objects.

Maintenance follows our schedule, mostly overnight: security patches, panel updates and PHP releases land without you ever booking a window.

  • EPP code in, confirmation approved, finished
  • Every DNS record on one screen, editable in minutes
  • Daily backups you restore yourself, in one click
  • SSL issued free and auto-renewed

Good to Know

More that's built in

Nothing goes dark mid-move

The records keep resolving from the first minute to the last, so visitors and mail notice nothing. What moves is the paperwork.

Scale up without relocating

Step up whenever the site demands it; files, settings and address never move an inch.

Free to leave any time

Your data leaves in the same standard formats it arrived in, and we will lend a hand with the move if it comes to that.

Speed set up for you

Every site lands on NVMe with server-side caching already live — no tuning left for you to do.

Certificates in the price

Every domain ships with self-renewing SSL, so encryption stays out of the upsell column.

We move it for you

Switching hosts? Our engineers move the site free, typically within 24 hours.

Getting Going

Three short steps to get running

  1. 1

    Check it can move

    Registry rules block a name under 60 days old, or one that changed registrar in the last 60 days. That is the only thing likely to stop you.

  2. 2

    Unlock and start it

    Lift the transfer lock at your current registrar, request the EPP code, and start the transfer here — the bonus year applies itself wherever the extension allows one.

  3. 3

    Approve, then leave it

    Click the confirmation email. Your DNS carries on answering while the registries do their part, and privacy is on before the name reaches your panel.

In Every Plan

Comes with the plan, no surcharge

  • Renewal pricing visible before checkout
  • A free year added on most extensions
  • WHOIS privacy engages on arrival, at no charge
  • a 99.9% uptime SLA that pays credits when missed
  • Humans answering support 24 hours a day
  • NVMe storage standard, never an upsell
  • Renewal billed at your original sign-up rate
  • HTTP/2 enabled on LiteSpeed servers

Still Curious

Questions that keep coming up

My domain expires in a few days — transfer now, or renew first?

Renew first, then transfer. A transfer takes days rather than minutes, so one started against a term with hours left on it risks the name expiring mid-move and dropping into redemption, where recovery costs several times what the renewal would have. Renewing loses you nothing either: where the extension allows a bonus year, that year lands on top of the term you have just paid for.

Can I move several names at once?

Yes, though each still needs its own EPP code — the code proves ownership of that specific name, so there is no bulk shortcut around it. Expect them to finish at different times: registries work at their own pace, and a .com and a country-code started an hour apart routinely land a week apart. Once they are all here they renew from one dashboard on one invoice, which is usually the whole point of gathering them up.

Does the price move at renewal?

Same rate, same amount. There is no introductory price here that silently doubles once you are settled.

Is a transfer refundable if I change my mind?

Not once it has completed: the fee has bought a year of registry time, and no registrar anywhere can return that. If a transfer fails instead — a mistyped code, a lock nobody lifted, a name too new to move — nothing changes hands and our desk tells you exactly which rule stopped it. Nothing here traps the name either way; once the registry's 60-day hold passes it is free to move on again.

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