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  Step-by-Step Instructions on Transferring Your DNS
  Below are some of the most popular Domain Registrars. Click on your Domain Registar to jump to the DNS update information.

Network Solutions
Register.com
Bulkregister
Dotster
Go Daddy
Tucows

If your Domain Registrar is not on the list above, please contact your Domain Registrar for instructions on DNS information modification procedures. We would appreciate greatly if you forward that information to us so that we can provide it to our customers.

If you are not sure which Domain Registrar your domain name is registered with, you can check the 'whois' database. There are many sites where you can perform a "whois" lookup. A few sites are listed below.

http://www.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois (Keep radio button selected as "Domain")
http://netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
http://whois.inww.com/
http://opensrs.com/

International Domain Names
Please check out allwhois.com to find your Domain Registrar. You will need to contact them to find out the procedure of updating DNS Information.

Use the following DNS information when updating your domain name record with your Domain Registrar. This must be your NEW domain name server information.

HostSave DNS Information

Primary DNS
ns1.hostsave.com
207.150.196.199
Secondary DNS
ns2.hostsave.com
207.150.197.103

Network Solutions
  • Make sure that your contact information is current:
    1. Go to: http://www.netsol.com/
    2. Click on: WhoIs
    3. Search for your Domain Name.
    4. The most important item to check is the Administrative Contact email address. Make sure that this email address is current and that you can access the email account. For security authentication, Network Solution typically requires an email handshake.
    5. Do you have a password? Recently, Network Solutions has developed password access to a web-based method to update your Domain Name records. If you do not have a password, do not be concerned.

  • If the Administrative Contact email address is not current:
    If you can still retrieve email at the Administrative Contact email address.
    1. Go to: http://www.netsol.com/
    2. Select the Manage Your Account tab from any page within the site.
    3. Enter your domain name in the text box, then click Go!
    4. Select: Change my contact record address, phone, or email, then click Go!
    5. Enter email address and contact handle. Use the link on the right hand side to pull up your contact handle information. Your contact handle is the alphanumeric code next to your Administrative Contact name.
    6. Use the Mail-From method. You will need to check your email from the old Administrative Contact email address to approve the change.

    If you cannot retrieve email from the Administrative Contact email address.
    1. If you have a password, then you can use the same steps above but use the CRYPT-PWD as your authorization method.
    2. If you do not have a password, you will have to perform a fax authorization to change your contact information. Go to: http://www.netsol.com/en_US/makechanges/fax/ for instructions.

  • To change the DNS for your Domain Name, follow the steps below.
    1. Go to: http://www.netsol.com/
    2. Select the Manage Your Account tab from any page within the site.
    3. Enter your domain name in the text box, then click Go!
    4. Select Transfer my domain name to another ISP, then click Go!
    5. Enter your current, working e-mail address, confirm the domain name, then click Go! The email address needs to match the Administrative Email address from (A) above.
    6. Under the Authentication Information heading, choose your Guardian method from the drop down list. MAIL-FROM should be used, unless you have a password. If you have a password, use CRYPT-PW.
    7. Under the Name Server Information heading, enter the host name and net address, also called a name server name and IP address, respectively, for your new name servers.
    8. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and hit the Submit this Form for Processing button.
    9. Go to the e-mail address you gave us in step 4, above, and forward your Service Agreement modification request to hostmaster@networksolutions.com.

    Attention AOL users: AOL software prevents you from simply replying to Network Solution's message. Highlight the message you received, copy it into the body of a new e-mail message, type hostmaster@networksolutions.com in the To: field, then hit the Send button.

Register.com
How to transfer a domain.
  1. Go to: http://www.register.com/
  2. On left side of page: Click on ManageMyAccount
  3. At Domain Manager: Login enter User Name, Password and Domain you wish to transfer. If you do not remember your username/password, there is password retrieval link on this page.
  4. Click on Domain Name Servers (DNS)
  5. At Modify DNS: Click on delete for the .register name servers and enter the new name servers.
  6. Would you like to make these changes? Click on Yes
  7. Are you sure you want to make these changes? Click Yes
  8. A confirmation email will be sent to your email address. Click on URL in the email to confirm changes.

Bulkregister
You can make modifications to the domain name servers that appear in your domain record by doing the following.
  1. Go to: http://www.bulkregister.com/
  2. Login to your BulkRegister account using the "Secure Log In" If you do not remember your username and password, you can email support@bulkregister.com.
  3. Click on "list domains"
  4. Click on the domain name you wish to modify
  5. Select "to modify name servers use this form"
  6. Enter the new name server names in the appropriate fields
  7. Check the boxes marked "click if modify"
  8. Click on "submit" and "apply"
The system will automatically add the name server's IP addresses. Please note that it will take 24 - 48 hours before the modification will completely take effect.


Dotster
  1. Go to: http://www.dotster.com/
  2. Log into your Dotster account by entering your username and password in the login box in the left side navigation. If you do not remember your username/password, just click on the "login" button. The following error page will contain a password retrieval link at the bottom of the page.
  3. Click "Manage your domains"
  4. In the drop down box, choose the domain name that you are transferring.
  5. Click the button "Manage..."
  6. On the left side of the screen you will see some links, click the one that says "Name Servers."
  7. At the bottom of the page it will list your current name servers. "Remove" the old ones in turn.
  8. "Add" the new name servers in turn. Enter the name server names NOT the IP address. Name server names will be something like ns1.nameserver.com.
  9. Click update.
  10. Now wait up to 72 hours for the change to take place.

Go Daddy
  1. Go to: http://www.godaddy.com/
  2. Click on: Domain Names under Products and Services
  3. Click on: Manage Your Account
  4. Login using your username and password. If you have forgotten your username/password, use the password retrieval link on this page.
  5. Select the domain name you are transferring from the drop down menu.
  6. Click on: Modify DNS Information
  7. Select: I'm hosting with another ISP (radio button)
  8. Enter the primary name server name NOT the IP address. For example: ns1.hostsave.com
  9. Enter the secondary name server name.
  10. Click: Submit
  11. You will be redirected to the main page and there should be a, "Name server modifications are pending," notice under the name server information for your domain name.
Tucows
  1. Go to: http://www.opensrs.com/
  2. Click on End User on the left-hand navigation
  3. Select Manage Your Domain. Use your domain name, username and password to log in.
  4. Scroll down and click on Manage Name Servers
  5. Edit the Primary and Secondary Server Hostname by typing over the existing name servers. Use ns1.hostsave.com for the primary server and use ns2.hostsave.com for the secondary server.
  6. Click on Save/Submit and when the screen refreshes you will see the numberical server IP addresses.
  7. In addition, using the menu at the top of the screen, you can select any of the domain name registration information that you wish to update, such as the Administrative Contact.

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