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Overview

This tutorial describes the migration of a .de domain to Hetzner with the aid of the Domain Registration Robot.

Basically, the main steps are:

• Request authcode ("AuthInfo") from the current provider.
• Create handles.
• Create nameserver entries.
• Start CHProv (KK) order in the Robot.

Request authcode ("AuthInfo") from the current provider

The authcode ("AuthInfo1") for the domain to be transferred needs to be requested from the current provider. This is a kind of password for domain transfer and enables the authenticity of the person carrying out the domain transfer (the previous domain holder/Admin-C) to be checked.

Should it no longer be possible to reach the current provider, an "AuthInfo2" can be requested from any member of DENIC. This may however involve additional costs.

Further information on domain transfer procedure may be found on the web page for DENIC.

If you have access to the zone entries for the nameservers which are currently registered: It might be appropriate to shorten the validity period (TTL) for some of the entries or to adjust the host entries for mail- and webservers etc. to the new circumstances before the transfer.

In the Robot

Create handles

First, if these are not available, handles (= contact addresses) for the owner (Holder), the administrative contact (Admin-C) and the technical contact (TECH-C) as well as the zone administrator (Zone-C) should be created.

Handles which already exist, having already been used in other domains, can and should be reused. If these are one and the same person/company, only one handle needs to be created.

Domains cannot be registered or migrated as long as the light (status display in the Robot) is still on "yellow". Handles are usually ready within a few minutes.

Please note: Separate handles need to be created in the Robot for each TLD. For .de domains, .de handles need to be created.

Create nameserver entries

Regardless of whether you wish to use Hetzner nameservers or your own nameservers, it is recommended that you create the corresponding nameserver entries before starting the CHProv order.

Further information is to be found in the article on Creating DNS Entries in the Hetzner Robot.

Start CHProv (KK) order in the Robot

The CHProv (KK) order can be started in the Robot via the menu item "Domains" -> "New Domain". Only the domain name, handles for Holder, Admin-C, Tech-C and Zone-C are needed as well as the nameservers to be used in future for the domain. Please note: If you wish to use own nameservers and should their hostnames be located within the new domain, you need to add the glue records in the input fields for the nameservers as follows "Name of the nameserver + space + IP address":

Example for the domain "grossefirma.de"

ns1.grossefirma.de 213.133.98.96
ns2.grossefirma.de 213.133.99.99

Should the glue record yield an IPv6 address as well as an IPv4 address, the entries must read as follows:

ns1.grossefirma.de 213.133.98.96 12ab:23cd:34ef:0:0:0:0:1
ns2.grossefirma.de 213.133.99.99 12ab:23cd:34ea:0:0:0:0:1

A .de domain transfer is normally carried out within minutes.

The light is "yellow" after the start of the order. Should the light change to "red", then something has gone wrong. The Robot will send an email afterwards displaying the original DENIC error message.

Some of these errors are described in the article here. Once the error has been corrected the domain transfer procedure can be started once more and a domain update be performed.

Each domain update involves a DENIC inspection of the given nameservers via ("NAST"). This inspection can be tracked via the DENIC web page

Despite the domain transfer, web pages belonging to the old server continue to be shown

This is normal, as the nameservers in the Internet temporarily save cache entries for mailservers, webservers etc. until the validity period (TTL) has expired and so do not recognize the new data.

Furthermore, some providers ignore the given period of validity, migration should however be recognized by all nameservers between 3 and 5 days at the latest.