# Domain Transfer Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-transfer-question/646520>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 8, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-transfer-question/646520 "2013-01-08T19:08:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-transfer-question/646520/1 "2013-01-08T19:08:26Z")

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How long should it take for a domain name to be transferred from one hosting company to another?

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**Author:** ![Khendrask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@Khendrask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khendrask)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-transfer-question/646520/2 "2013-01-09T11:22:00Z")

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As long as the domain is unlocked, it should take anywhere from 48 hours to about 7 days, usually more towards the 7 day end of the scale. It also depends on the hosting companies you are moving from and to (moving from any Yahoo! hosting is almost guaranteed to be 7 days).

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domain-transfer-question/646520/3 "2013-01-09T11:30:45Z")

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> [@Khendrask](#):
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> As long as the domain is unlocked, it should take anywhere from 48 hours to about 7 days, usually more towards the 7 day end of the scale. It also depends on the hosting companies you are moving from and to (moving from any Yahoo! hosting is almost guaranteed to be 7 days).

Would you be willing to expand on that last point a bit? I currently have a domain hosted by Yahoo that I would rather like to move to some other company (not that Yahoo haven’t been keeping it up and running fine, but there are other issues) and I have been putting it off because I do not know how much hassle it will involve, or, really, how to go about it. It sounds like you may have some relevant experience.