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What are the consequences of a transfer?
Contract
When you change your registrar, you change your contract; you may find more information on this topic by consulting our contract.
Expiration date for .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, and .NAME TLDs
The transfer will add one full year (12 months) to the current expiration date, you keep all the prorata. This rule applies to every accredited registrar.
Expiration date for .EU, .BE and .FR TLDs
The transfer will add one year to the transfer date, so you will lose the surplus from the previous expiration date. This rule applies to every accredited registrar, because when the registry DNS.be makes the transfer, it resets the creation date (transfer date = new creation date).
Contacts change
Each registrar uses its own handles to identify the contacts of a domain. During the transfer these handles will be changed. That means that the contacts can very well be different people after the transfer; in that case, the former contacts will no longer have authority over the domain.
Nameservers do not change
A transfer in itself will not lead to a change in DNS. Your current services (website, e-mails, etc) should work as usual during the entire transfer process. However if your DNS were provided by the losing registrar, the DNS services may be cut after the transfer. If you have any doubt concerning your DNS, please contact your DNS provider.
Owner
At some registrars, you may request that both the registrar and owner be changed simultaneously. For security reasons, Gandi does not offer this possibility. You must therefore make a change of ownership before or after the domain is transfered to Gandi.
Customer Care
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