Moving DNS and Domain Name Hosting providers

[mdrabble]

We are moving to a new internet provider soon - and need to move our external DNS domain name from the current provider to a new 3rd party provider, so we can continue to manage our domain and DNS enteries.

 

Any recommendations - and how quickly and easy is it to do?

 

Cheers

Edited December 5, 2023 by 6Foot2

[Gideon_Kay]

HI,

 

Cloudflare are great for this in my experience.

 

Regards

 

GK

[dmj]

Another +1 for Cloudflare.

And it's pretty easy to add in things like DDOS protection against your sites if you need it.

[mavhc]

And get free wildcard LE certs without opening ports using dns auth

[MYK-IT]

Another vote for Cloudflare - with lots of (free) additional features beyond just DNS (e.g. SSL/TLS, DDoS, WAF, Managed Challenge Response etc) and using for MTA-STS too.

[mdrabble]

I've signed up for the free version for now - added my domain and it has imported DNS settings.

 

Looks like I just have to transfer the domain name and should be good to go - I'm nervous as never done this before and dont want to it up and yet I cannot believe how easy the transfer process it!

[Gideon_Kay]

You just need to change the name servers, you don't need to move the dns registration.

 

GK

[mdrabble]

You just need to change the name servers, you don't need to move the dns registration.

 

GK

 

Yea, will change those once the domain name have transferred - or is it better to change the NS servers first and then transfer the domain name?

 

Currently DNS and Domain Name are with the currently provider who we are moving away from.

[mavhc]

I'd change DNS first, make sure nothing breaks, then change domain tag

[mdrabble]

will change it after school - to make sure I can do some testing to make sure I've not broken anything :-)