DomainHELP

(These steps in transferring a .COM, .NET or .ORG domain to a new registrar also apply to .BIZ and .INFO or any domain within a Top Level Domain that runs on EPP)

In these explanations "losing registrar" means the domain registrar the domain is currently using before the domain transfer, the "gaining registrar" is the domain registrar you are transferring the domain to.

Here are the steps:

.CA domains are administered by CIRA: the Canadian Internet Registration Authority who sets out how .CA domains are to be transferred.

There are two things to consider when transferring a .CA domain:

1) Transferring a .CA domain to a new registrar

Domains in the .com, ,net, .org, .biz and .info TLDs (aka .CNOBI) use a registry protocol called "EPP" to communicate between the registrars and registry.

Under this protocol, a domain "auth code" is a small random code assigned to each domain name and is required in order for a domain name to be transferred from one registrar to another.