I am planning to transfer one of my domains to 1and1 from godaddy. But this domain hosts an active website. I am looking to transfer this domain with minimum downtime. Has anyone done something like this before? Any suggestions? (note: site is hosted at third party and its going to remain same) Thanks in advance
If you transfer to 1and1 be aware that you need to sign a contract and fax it to them with identification. I've transfered a domain before and as long as you pay attention to the date the registrar will receive it you should have minimal downtime.
I already have the same experience by tranferring the site from ixwebhosting to hostgator I can do it for you at lesser downtime. The size of the site transferred is 2GB with MySql database.
aah really, I recently moved a another domain (I am moving all domain to 1and1 slowly) and didn't require one. May be they will ask for it later. Thanks anyways
.co.uk domains are quite easy to transfer and should have little to no downtime, i belive .com etc are a little bit more difficult.
Oh my! You wouldn't expect downtime for domain transfers...it's seamless. But if your host goes down at that time, then you'd suffer downtime