We Chase the Auth Code With You
Transfers often stall because the registrant cannot access the current registrar or an old agency still controls the account. We explain what to request and which ownership checks may be needed.
Guided domain transfer
Move Your Domain Without Disrupting Its Services
Transfer .com, .net, .org and other eligible domains and gain a full extra year of registration. We walk you through unlocking, the EPP code and DNS continuity so your site and email keep working throughout.
From ৳1,599/year
Email Keeps Working
We map your MX, SPF and TXT records before anything is submitted. Business mail going down mid-transfer is the failure that actually costs money, and it is entirely avoidable.
Eligibility Checked Before Payment
Transfer rules vary by extension and registry. We confirm whether the domain is supported, unlocked, old enough to move, and ready for an authorization code before you commit.
Transfer eligibility lookup
Check your domain before you transfer
Enter the complete domain to check its registration status, see the current transfer price and continue through the secure transfer flow.
Secure domain checkoutFinal availability verified before payment
✓ Domain unlocked✓ EPP/Auth code ready✓ 60-day lock checked
Enter a full domain to check its transfer path.
Why Businesses Choose Hostaccent
Platform Highlights
Auth code and unlock, step by step
We tell you which screen to look on for your current registrar, what to write in the request, and what your options are when a previous developer or agency holds the account and is slow to respond.
Your DNS copied before you commit
We record every A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV and CAA entry on your current zone and reproduce it here, so the site and the mailboxes behave the same the moment the transfer lands.
Full DNS control afterwards
Once the domain is with us you get a complete DNS panel. Point a subdomain at a new server, add a TXT record for a verification, fix an SPF record — without filing a ticket and waiting.
Consolidated renewal management
Bring domains and hosting into one client area when that makes ownership and renewal easier to manage. The order summary shows the final amount and available payment methods.
Expiry reminders that reach you
Auto-renewal plus reminder emails from 60 days out. Losing a domain to a missed renewal is the most avoidable outage there is, and recovering an expired name costs far more than renewing it.
We follow up on stuck transfers
Track progress from your client area, and if the losing registrar goes quiet we chase it rather than leaving you to. Silence at the wrong point is what turns a five-day transfer into a three-week one.
Domain Transfer Pricing — Per TLD
.COM Transfer
The world’s most recognised TLD
৳1,599/year
Charged today: ৳1,599
Renews at ৳1,599/year
No setup fee
- 1-year renewal included
- DNS continuity guidance
- Transfer support
.NET / .ORG
For technology and organisations
৳1,799/year
Charged today: ৳1,799
Renews at ৳1,799/year
No setup fee
- 1-year renewal included
- Full DNS management
- EPP code guidance
.XYZ Transfer
A flexible modern extension
৳1,599/year
Charged today: ৳1,599
Renews at ৳1,599/year
No setup fee
- 1-year renewal included
- DNS continuity guidance
- Transfer support
Prices are shown in USD for the stated billing period. Applicable taxes and optional add-ons are calculated at checkout before payment. Renewal prices shown above are the current standard rates and may change only with advance notice under the Terms of Service.
Before you start
Four things every domain transfer needs
A transfer moves the registrar of record for your domain. Most failed attempts fail on one of these four prerequisites rather than on anything the new registrar does, so it is worth confirming all four before you pay for anything.
A domain older than 60 days
ICANN blocks transfers for the first 60 days after a domain is registered, and for 60 days after any previous transfer. There is no way around this window at any registrar — check the creation date in your WHOIS record before you plan the move.
The registrar lock removed
Every domain ships with a transfer lock (clientTransferProhibited) switched on. Turn it off in your current registrar's control panel — it usually appears under Domain Settings as Registrar Lock, Transfer Lock, or Theft Protection.
Your EPP authorisation code
The EPP code, also called the auth code or transfer key, proves you control the domain. Your current registrar must supply it on request; most show it in the domain dashboard, and some email it to the registrant address instead.
Access to the registrant email
The approval message goes to the registrant address in the WHOIS record — not to your registrar login. If that mailbox is out of date, or a privacy service is masking it, fix that first or the transfer will stall at approval.
Transfer guide
How a domain transfer actually works
What changes, and what does not
A transfer changes one thing: which registrar holds the registration. The domain name stays the same, the time you have already paid for is preserved, and your nameservers carry over unchanged. That last point is what most people worry about unnecessarily — a transfer does not, by itself, move your website or your email anywhere. If your DNS points at your current host in Dhaka before the transfer, it still points there afterwards.
What does change is where you manage it: renewals, contact details, DNS records and billing all move to your HostAccent client area, and the renewal invoice arrives in taka.
Not every extension follows the same transfer process
Standard extensions such as .com, .net and .org usually follow the familiar ICANN transfer process, but some country-code and restricted domains use different registry rules. The transfer checker should therefore be treated as the source of truth for eligibility, price and any documentation required for the exact extension you hold.
Check support before unlocking the domain or paying a transfer fee, and do not start close to expiry. If an extension is not available in HostAccent's transfer system, keep it with its current registrar and point its DNS to the hosting service instead; transferring the registrar is not required to use HostAccent hosting.
The five-day approval window (gTLDs)
For .com, .net, .org and similar extensions, ICANN gives your current registrar five days to respond once you submit a transfer. They can approve it, or reject it for a small number of documented reasons. If they do nothing, it completes automatically at the end of that window — silence counts as approval.
You can shorten that. The approval email goes to the registrant address on the domain, and clicking the confirmation link in it releases the domain straight away. This is where most transfers in Bangladesh actually stall: the registrant email is an old address at a previous agency, or a company address nobody checks. Confirm you can receive mail at that address before you start, because fixing it afterwards means updating WHOIS first and waiting again.
Keeping your site and email online
Sort DNS out before the transfer, not after. If you are moving hosting too, point the records at the new server while the domain still sits with the old registrar, confirm the site and mail work, and only then begin the transfer. The DNS change and the registrar change then never overlap.
If you are keeping your host and only changing registrar, copy the current records first — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and any CAA or SRV entries. Mail is the part people forget: a missing MX or SPF record after a transfer is the single most common cause of business email suddenly bouncing, and for a company that sends invoices and order confirmations, that is worse than the website being down. We map the existing zone with you before submission so every record is ready to reproduce.
Does transferring a domain affect SEO?
No, not by itself. Search engines index your content at a URL; they do not track which registrar bills you for the name. As long as the domain keeps resolving to the same site, rankings are unaffected and there is nothing to redirect or resubmit.
The risk is downtime, not the transfer. A domain that stops resolving for a day because nameservers were changed carelessly is a real SEO problem, which is why the DNS planning above matters more than the paperwork. If you are moving hosting at the same time, keep HTTPS working throughout — a certificate that lapses mid-move shows visitors a browser warning, and in Bangladesh that warning costs you the sale long before it costs you a ranking.
What happens to your renewal date
For gTLDs such as .com, .net and .org, a transfer adds a full year to your existing expiry. You do not lose time you have already paid for: a domain expiring in eight months expires in twenty once the transfer completes, and that year is included in the price shown on this page, billed in taka.
Country-code and restricted domains can be exceptions: some registries handle renewal on transfer differently, require local presence, or do not support registrar transfers through every provider. The checker above shows the price and conditions for supported extensions before you commit. If the extension is unsupported, you can keep it at the current registrar and update its nameservers or DNS records to use your HostAccent service.
Troubleshooting
Why transfers get rejected — and what fixes each one
A rejected transfer is almost never permanent. These are the six reasons we see most often, what each one looks like from your side, and the fix.
Domain is inside the 60-day lock
What you seeThe transfer is refused immediately, often with a message about registry policy rather than anything you did.
How to fix it
Wait out the remaining days. The clock runs from the registration date, or from the completion date of the last transfer.
Registrant details were changed recently
What you seeA transfer that should be eligible is rejected even though the domain is well over 60 days old.
How to fix it
Updating the registrant name, organisation, or email triggers its own 60-day lock. Check when the contact was last edited, then retry after the window closes.
The lock is still on
What you seeThe transfer request fails at submission, or the status never leaves pending.
How to fix it
Re-check the lock in your current registrar's panel. Some registrars re-apply it automatically after a contact change or a renewal.
The EPP code is wrong or has expired
What you seeSubmission is rejected with an authorisation or auth-code error.
How to fix it
Request a fresh code. Auth codes expire at several registrars, and copied codes often pick up a trailing space that breaks the match.
Privacy protection is hiding the registrant email
What you seeEverything looks correct but the approval email never arrives.
How to fix it
Temporarily disable WHOIS privacy at the losing registrar so the approval message reaches you, then re-enable it once the domain has moved.
The domain has already expired
What you seeThe registrar refuses the transfer, or the domain shows a redemption status.
How to fix it
An expired domain in the grace period usually has to be renewed before it can move, and a domain in redemption cannot be transferred at all. Contact us early — timing matters here.
Stuck on something not listed here? Send us the domain and the exact error message — our team deals with registrar-specific quirks daily and can usually tell you which side the block is on within a few minutes.
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Start Your Transfer
Many standard transfers finish in five to seven days. We help with the authorization code, eligibility checks and DNS planning before the request is submitted.
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