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Switch Registrars

Change registrar without a second offline

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 you gain by bringing the name here

A bonus year on the term

Transfer a name in and most registrations gain a full additional year beyond the time you already hold — free wherever the extension permits it.

A single code kicks it off

Unlock the domain at its current home, grab the EPP authorisation code and drop it into our form. Verification done, usually inside minutes.

No blackout, ever

Your current DNS keeps answering for the site and mailboxes the whole time the transfer runs — there is no outage window to schedule.

Privacy engages on landing

As soon as the name reaches us, WHOIS privacy kicks in automatically and your contact details vanish from the public record.

Renewal pricing shown up front

From day one you know exactly what keeping the name costs, and that rate holds steady every year with no jump after the first.

All DNS in a single dashboard

A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT records sit together in one panel, and any edit goes live within minutes.

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Bonus Year

Arrive and pick up a year on the spot

Switching registrars normally eats time. This one pays some back. On most standard extensions the transfer bolts a full year onto the remaining term, so the name arrives already ahead.

If an extension doesn't qualify for the bonus year, you'll hear it from us before you commit — no fine print, no surprise 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

A single code, with everything staying live

Verification hinges on one EPP authorisation code — the password proving the name is yours. Unlock the domain with your old registrar, request the code, feed it into our form and approve the follow-up email. That's the whole task.

A transfer only changes who administers the registration, so your existing DNS keeps steering the site and email exactly where they already go. No connection breaks while the move wraps up.

  • 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

A domain transfer, 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, clear any transfer or privacy lock, and request the EPP authorisation code — most registrars email it within minutes.

  2. 2

    Kick off the transfer with HostingFast

    Type in the domain, paste the code and click through the confirmation email we send. Where the extension qualifies, the bonus year is applied automatically.

  3. 3

    Confirm, then let us run the rest

    One approval from you and we take it from there. Your DNS keeps answering the entire time, so nothing disappears from the internet.

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

One Roof

Run the name right beside your hosting

Once the name is with us it can live next to the hosting — one login, one bill, and a free SSL certificate that fires up the moment the domain points 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

Everything a transfer carries 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

Registrar, DNS and hosting are three separate things

Most transfer anxiety comes from treating them as one.

Your registrar is the company that holds the registration and bills you for it. A transfer changes that company and nothing else. Your DNS is the set of records saying where the name points — those records travel across as they are. Your hosting is the server the site actually runs on, and a registrar transfer never touches it.

That separation is why nothing goes dark. The site keeps loading from wherever it already loads from, the mail keeps arriving at whatever mail server already handles it, and the only thing that moves is the name on the paperwork and the invoice.

You can change the other two later, at your own pace. Point the name at our hosting whenever you are ready and a free SSL certificate issues itself; leave it where it is and the domain simply renews with us at the published rate. One decision at a time, in whichever order suits you.

Sort the rest of the move

FAQ

Transfer questions, answered

Will my website or email drop offline mid-transfer?

No. A transfer only changes which company administers the registration; your DNS records ride across untouched, so the site and mailboxes keep working 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 remains, at no cost. A handful of country-code and specialist extensions do not permit it, and if yours is one of them we flag it before you reach the checkout.

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

The EPP code — sometimes called an auth code — is a short password that proves you own the name. Request it through your current registrar's control panel or support team; it usually arrives by email within minutes.

What's the timeline on a transfer?

Most complete within a few days of your approval. The precise wait depends on the registrar you are leaving and the rules attached to that particular extension. The domain stays fully functional throughout.

What has to happen before I start?

Two jobs at your current registrar: unlock the domain and remove any transfer or privacy lock, then request the EPP code. Registry rules also require the name to be at least 60 days old and not to have switched registrars in the past 60 days — that restriction is the registry's, not ours.

Will my DNS records come across intact?

Completely intact, and you manage them from our panel once the move lands. Prefer to aim the name at our hosting instead? A free SSL certificate installs itself the moment you do.

Set to bring your domain over?

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

Set up in three quick steps

  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

Bundled in at no extra cost

  • 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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