mikkydoos Posted May 6, 2014 Posted May 6, 2014 Hi, Wondering if anyone has done this..... We have an LA issued domain name .sch.uk that I want to transfer to another nameserver (1 and 1) and change the IPS TAG. We are the registered owners according to Nominet. The LA dept are willing to release the domain. 1 and 1 are telling me they can't host that domain extension (typical, why they won't I don't know) Anyone moved a similar type of domain name to non LA host ? If so, to who ? Cheers in advance, Mikydoos
teejay Posted May 6, 2014 Posted May 6, 2014 (edited) We use dnsexit, it's free and has worked great for us for 10+ years. Edit: Just to clarify, we just use them for dns, we host our own web servers. Edited May 6, 2014 by teejay
ZeroHour Posted May 6, 2014 Posted May 6, 2014 I would avoid the 1 & 1 DNS service, I have heard scary stories over the years tbh. Consider Home | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company for DNS hosting, it allows other features but it has one of the fastest DNS systems on the go and its free. You can also turn on the DDOS protection if you need later too.
EXA_Mark Posted May 6, 2014 Posted May 6, 2014 Hi, Wondering if anyone has done this..... We have an LA issued domain name .sch.uk that I want to transfer to another nameserver (1 and 1) and change the IPS TAG. We are the registered owners according to Nominet. The LA dept are willing to release the domain. 1 and 1 are telling me they can't host that domain extension (typical, why they won't I don't know) Anyone moved a similar type of domain name to non LA host ? If so, to who ? Cheers in advance, Mikydoos Hi, We look after thousands of schools domains/DNS (including quite a lot in the Birmingham area, if you want to speak to any of our customers), if you would like any more information just PM me.
plexer Posted May 6, 2014 Posted May 6, 2014 My previous school we transferred the .sch.uk to Ariotek with no issues at all. Ben
mikkydoos Posted May 7, 2014 Author Posted May 7, 2014 Got our other domains with 1 & 1 at the mo. Guess I'll have to move them... AGAIN!! Summer job.
Oaktech Posted May 7, 2014 Posted May 7, 2014 We've moved our .sch.uk to vidahosts who charged us a £5 fee to be registrar, and then give us dns management for free forever. We host the site internally.
tmcd35 Posted May 7, 2014 Posted May 7, 2014 We've got a domain registered with 1&1 too. I got fed up arguing with LEA, new ISP and 1&1 about the hosting of our .sch.uk DNS records - so I decided to host my own DNS server. Updated Nominet to point to our own host, all problems suddenly disappeared. I now have 100% full control and can change an adapt on the fly. Only issue I came across was our Exchange server requiring a reverse lookup entry which I couldn't host locally due to the subnet provision of our ISP. Thankfully our ISP agreed to host the reverse DNS entry, so all is good.
mikkydoos Posted May 7, 2014 Author Posted May 7, 2014 I would avoid the 1 & 1 DNS service, I have heard scary stories over the years tbh. Consider Home | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company for DNS hosting, it allows other features but it has one of the fastest DNS systems on the go and its free. You can also turn on the DDOS protection if you need later too. 1&1 DNS is pretty horrible. They've updated the front end for thwir domain management recently.. but it still doesn't work
rush_tech Posted May 7, 2014 Posted May 7, 2014 We transferred ours to vidahost last year they also host our site.
mikkydoos Posted May 13, 2014 Author Posted May 13, 2014 Vidahost it is. Thanks for your comments guys
GeekyPete Posted May 13, 2014 Posted May 13, 2014 We moved and went O365 for our email at the same time. Go-Daddy were suprisingly easy. DNS records updated in minutes. Avoid 1-2-1, A local school had to move from them to Go-Daddy because they couldn't access the DNS resords. That's why we went Go_daddy off the bat.
Oaktech Posted June 27, 2018 Posted June 27, 2018 (edited) Vida (now TSO) Host who charge a fiver to do the transfer and then free forever - Our renewal date is 01/01/2200. We've just moved another pair of domains to them - a .co.uk and a .net and they've agreed to DNS manage those for free too, all we have to do is pay the 9.99 and 4.99 domain namerenewal fees when they come up some when next year. The whole lot was done in about 40 minutes. They've just been so utterly hassle free. Edited June 27, 2018 by elsiegee40
DGardiner Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 On of our local authorities are playing hardball claiming that its their TLD and they cant release it - if they continue is this something i can just contest with nominet to get it released?
Oaktech Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 On of our local authorities are playing hardball claiming that its their TLD and they cant release it - if they continue is this something i can just contest with nominet to get it released? It's your domain. It's tied to your DFE number. You need to to point them to this https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nominet-prod/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/27104952/Schools_Domain_Name_Rules.pdf You can contest it with nominet, or you could just register a new one - you would have to forfeit your old one, but it may be easier!
DGardiner Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 It's your domain. It's tied to your DFE number. You need to to point them to this https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nominet-prod/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/27104952/Schools_Domain_Name_Rules.pdf You can contest it with nominet, or you could just register a new one - you would have to forfeit your old one, but it may be easier! its only to make sure we dont miss key emails after taking over a number of schools since the authority is still sending key information to the old addresses...
ITGuyNW Posted January 20, 2025 Posted January 20, 2025 (edited) Dragging up a very old thread... I want to move our domain from LCC to Krystal. Has anyone done similar recently and had any resistance? Edited January 20, 2025 by ITGuyNW
drutt Posted January 20, 2025 Posted January 20, 2025 (edited) Dragging up a very old thread... I want to move our domain from LCC to Krystal. Has anyone done similar recently and had any resistance? Had no problems, just had to setup an account and open a support ticket. Once the support agent gave me the details I went into our tsoHost client area and started the transfer. Took barely any time at all. Edited January 20, 2025 by cnewstead
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