{"id":24519,"date":"2022-02-02T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/reason-why-your-domain-transfer-could-fail\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:00:24","slug":"reason-why-your-domain-transfer-could-fail","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/reason-why-your-domain-transfer-could-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason why your domain transfer could fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This article provides you with information about why your domain transfer might&#8217;ve failed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Common reasons for domain transfer failure<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Not accepted by the Registrant<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The domain update request may not have been accepted by the Registrant if&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">they have not seen, or have ignored, the emailed update request. Remind them and resubmit the transfer request.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">the Registrant email is no longer in use or is incorrect. You will need to contact the registrar to update the registrant email address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>The domain name is in Lock status<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Contact your registrar for assistance on how to unlock your domain for transfer, or alternatively, you can unlock your domain via their control panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The domain has expired<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Please contact your registrar immediately to renew the domain and avoid it being deleted and taken by someone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">60 day Transfer Lock period<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Domain names are locked for 60 days after initial registration or previous transfer and can\u2019t be transferred during this period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">After the 60-day lock has expired, contact our Admin team again and request that they resubmit the registry transfer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Anniversary period<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">If a domain is in its Anniversary period of 3 days prior to its expiration up to the 6th of the following month, it can\u2019t be transferred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Authorization code or IPS TAG is needed<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Some registrars require an Authorisation Code or IPS TAG for the transfer to be processed. This is mainly for .com, net, org, info or biz domains and an IPS TAG for co.uk domain extensions. Contact your current registrar for this information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Domain dispute<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">There may be a dispute and the Registrant has denied the request. If you are not the domain owner, please make contact with them to resolve any outstanding agreements or concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">If you have bought a domain from someone, ensure that you adhere to the arrangements of the sale and have paid any relevant fees, or they will deny the transfer request.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with information about why your domain transfer might&#8217;ve failed. &nbsp; &nbsp; Common reasons for domain transfer failure &nbsp; Not accepted by the Registrant &nbsp; The domain update request may not have been accepted by the Registrant if&nbsp;they have not seen, or have ignored, the emailed update&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[1192,1177],"ht-kb-tag":[318,319,392],"class_list":["post-24519","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-domain-tranfers","ht_kb_category-domains","ht_kb_tag-domain-transfer","ht_kb_tag-domains-and-company-registrations","ht_kb_tag-fail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reason why your domain transfer could fail? 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