Transferring Domains: What You Need to Know

buying a domain name is simple. you just go to google, type domain name, click the first result, register the domain and you're done. chances are you don't even really think about it again after doing that, until the domain comes up for renewal next year. as people get more experience with domain names, i find that they say: oh, you know what? i think this first place i register my domain at probably isn't the best place to keep it at. typically, the more popular domain registrars go daddy. i'm not trying to call any company out, but there are some popular domain registrars that are not really great, and as people get more experience, they realize that and they want to transfer their domain out. so what are the considerations before you transfer your domain name? well, the first thing you need to keep in mind is that you'll need to unlock your domain before you transfer. there's something called a domain transfer lock, and every registrar does this. what you'll need to do is log into your domain registrar panel and flip the switch that says domain transfer lock to off, and this tells the new registrar that you are able to transfer your domain out from the previous registrar to that. that's not all, though. you also need to obtain the auth code. the auth code is a randomly generated code, like a password. your domain registrar will have a spot in their panel where you can say request auth code. they'll usually email this to you or you can contact support and they will be able to send this to you as well. your auth code is your tiket to transfer your domain name. so you need the auth code and you need to have your domain unlocked in order to be able to transfer it to the new registrar. now, in most cases, you're going to be allowed to transfer your domain name anywhere you want, whenever you want. however, there are two scenarios in which you may not be able to transfer your domain name. yes, your domain could be hostage at your current registrar. the first case is if your domain is less than 60 days old. so if you bought your domain last month at godaddy and you're trying to transfer it to namecheap, you may not be able to do this. we'll tok about why in a second. the second case is if you updated the contact info on the domain, the registrant details, the information that is publicly listed in the who is database. if you updated that info within the last 60 days, that is another thing that could stop you from transferring your domain name to another registrar. why is this? well, i can, the non-profit organization that regulates domains, actually put this rule in place to help prevent fraud. i'll be honest, i don't totally understand it. i don't know what this prevents as far as fraud, but the good news is that registrars have the option to let people opt out, and i find that most registrars, including godaddy, including ones i'm not really a big fan of- they tend to let you opt out of this stuff, so i wouldn't be too concerned about this. but just keep in mind, if your domain is less than 60 days old, or if you did recently update the contact info tiknically, your registrar could choose to stop you from transferring the domain name. and that's an i can regulation, meaning the registrar isn't necessarily the bad guy. it's just a weird quirk about how domains work. so one important thing you need to know when you transfer your domain is that you're actually adding one year of time to when your domain name expires. what does this mean? well, i think when a lot of people transfer their domain, they think, oh, i'm paying eight or ten dollars to transfer my domain, like i'm paying a transfer fee, and that's actually not true. what you're paying for is adding one year of time to your domain name at the new registrar. so if you've got one month left on your domain before you transfer, after you transfer it you're gonna have one month plus one year left. so at this point you're probably wondering, christian, how do i transfer my domain name? and i've actually got a full tutorial you can watch on transferring your domain name from godaddy to namecheap. i'll have that linked up here and in the description below. it's an unlisted video, so make sure you check the links to be able to find it. when you do go to transfer your domain name, you're gonna find it'll take anywhere from two to nine days to transfer, and this is because registrars have different methods for transferring your domain out from the old one and into the new one. what do i mean? well, some registrars are going to send you an email saying: hey, we got a request to release your domain to the new registrar. if we don't hear from you for five days, we're gonna go ahead and release that automatikally. in that case, you basically have a five day waiting period before the new registrar can get a hold of that domain and take it into their possession. so if that's the case, it's gonna be closer to probably seven to nine days to transfer your domain. however, some registrars are kind and they'll actually send you an email and say: hey, the new registrar sent us an email letting us know that you want to transfer your domain out. if this is really true, click the link in this email and will release it immediately. when that happens, your domain transfer will probably take place in two to four days. so hopefully your registrar is one of those that will let you just click the link and release it to the new registrar. if not, you have a waiting period that unfortunately cannot be bypassed. and speaking of waiting periods and things that cannot be bypassed, if your domain expires in less than seven days, stop, do not pass. go renew your domain name at the current registrar first before you transfer. i know what you're thinking. you're probably going, but, christian, i want to get this thing away from godaddy or wherever i'm leaving. i don't want to renew this domain again before i transfer it. i know, i know, i know it's probably a painfully high renewal cost, but if your domain expires in less than seven days- and it's important, meaning it's running on a live website that gets traffic. you don't want to risk your domain name expiring while it's in the transfer process. think about this: if your registrar is one of those that has, say, a five day waiting period, and then it might take two to three business days for the new registrar to transfer it in once it's released, you might wait eight or nine days for that transfer to take place, and until it is complete and at the new registrar, the old registrar is responsible for it. so if you have seven days left on the domain and it takes nine days to transfer, well, guess what? for the last two days of that transfer, your domain is expired and there's not really anything you can do about it because it's being transferred. you're literally going to get stuck where you have no choice but to wait with your website offline until the transfer is completed. so those are the things you need to know before transferring your domain name from any registrar to any registrar. if you'd like to know how to transfer a domain name, i have a whole tutorial on transferring from godaddy to namecheap. if that's what you're transferring to and from, great. but if not, you're still going to get great insight out of this tutorial, because the transfer process is very similar, no matter who you're transferring from or to. so if you like this video, definitely do be sure to hit that subscribe button and click the bell, so you don't miss when i release new videos. and with that said, i will catch you guys next time.

How to Convert Wix to Shopify (Web Migration)

in deze video, arjo, die show you step by step. hoi ik and migration wix website to your shoppie van websites. if you want to switch from x to shop je file, you want to transport al die content, ben deze video lovely fairy, help hobbykas aan. je werd i go to mix shiva en als ze dan de link in de description to cart to cart, dat is this website, basic, ulo, as to transfer aan er al er content van which to shop by want. je kreeg een account. you can dit. create nieuwe migration dry hair and then select the search cards which will be mix, of course, there i can add the soldier wel wat je saus website url, just like that. het mijn e-mail heb, mijn paspoort is als een necessary measure. the target card is shopify, zo lang om te filmen en mijn e-mail en passend right now, just like that. en nou, wie heeft to confirm that this is a real shopify store? sorry, after it click de band winst on my great for shopping, pfizer, het instap login, as you can see him, to add this app to mars of vijf store, josh, die tijd, en dat is basic. wat heeft u, de heer, no login with your account dat je just made for car to cart and then you go to do so. now back to the website macho's entities. and now mix en shop. ivar websites will be checked by a car to cart and see if they can. my great, dit zal week en jesus entities, wat hier zo this may take a couple of moments when she can see from heer weekend select the entity for migration, zang go to select haalbaar. of course you can select all the things i realy would. you can also select some other things like rate, rio, hoorn, redirection, business al aan ringlet met extra kosten aan dat kan, to add one of these. zo heb ik in het start right there and all grown to start the migration fashion. c nou, destexhe, kabbelen moment bij wie bij de shoot, een tag mode of few minutes. and then who jaar dan hoe je kunt, kunt 10, je wat? the process, as you can see, the demon migration, hij is meer dan en die delegations- be successfully completed. you can check your results. amerika view some more information. and now you can read: check de international edition op zijn verder gebouw: timmy migrated. zo ik wil kost 2, nine dollars voor drie toe, en dit is als je geen see a familie price, olie twenty-nine. what if you have bigger website en de hef de transfer van migrate moment. het is. the price may be higher and what we can do now. we can go to check u zult af en hier i can see all the information zo my my website. de die want to migrate was completely and tea, and that means that also there will be no product. show the cause. i had no product. but if they produce, nou, show op heer, dat means that the demo migration was een succes. en de weekend startte for migration by hitting the green button up. hier is de helpt wel peekaboo like: please subscribe en cm. nextime heb ik de d.

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Free Wix to Shopify - Easy Guide 2022

hello everyone. i am ezekiel bruni, and this website at planet video is brought to you by my wife's haircuts. i've got new lights, new camera and that same old website- planet action for you. today we are actually going to be transferring a website from wix to shopify. not the actual store products, those can be exported via a csv file, but exporting your website is well, there's no button that just does that for you, so we're going to have to do things manually. it's simple, a little tedious, but simple. [Music]. let's go over and have a look at. this is my test site. it's a site i built on wix to sell pictures of my wonderful fluffy cat, cleocatra. simple enough, just some text over a photo, three columns with, uh, text and images, you know, delineating features, uh, a quick newsletter sign up form and a disclaimer stating that this is not a real thing. it's, it's not so simple enough. here we are on shopify. first, we're going to just take a couple minutes to set up a brand new store. that's it. i'm going to have someone blur out my email address in post and we're going to put in actually just the regular password that i've already got and let's throw in a store name i've already called like cleo catro 1, cleo catcher 2, cleo catcher 45. so we're going to do test video test site. there we go, video test site. and is that available? it seems to be available. let's create my store now. i already have a shopify account, so i'm just going to log me in there. that's the incorrect password. um, i'm going to take a second to sort this out and smash cut to the next screen. so that was a little embarrassing. had to update my password. oh well, um it. there was a little loading screen you might have seen that just basically said: we're making your store for you and now i've got to choose some products. i'm just playing around. i'm not selling anything. my current revenue: zero mexican pesos. uh, photography, because this is about pictures of my kitty and no, i'm div. i'm not developing this for, uh, whatever, i'm not developing this for a client, i'm developing this for myself and i'm gonna cut past the part where i put in my email address. okay, so now that i've put in my address, i've been taken to this screen right here and you could. you would normally. normally, when building a store, you'd want to just add a product, but we're not doing that. we're going straight to customize theme and we can choose a different theme. you can choose from their library of free themes here, or you can browse the theme store and they'll get one of the premium ones. we're not going to do any of that. we're just going to go straight into customizing the default theme, because this will give us the tools we need to copy the content over easily enough. now you're seeing what looks to be here like a fairly standard uh site builder, except there's a couple of things you need to know. one: you can't drag and drop anything, uh. secondly, everything's handled through this sidebar. the sidebar is where you do the dragging and the dropping, and the sidebar is where you decide what content is going to be on your page and which what content is not. and the last thing you need to know, the last thing you absolutely need to know: well, here's how to remove stuff. but the last thing you need to know is that you can't do this for every page. you can only do this- and this is very annoying, i'm not gonna lie. you can only do this on the phone page. every other page works a little differently and i'll show you how they work later, but for now, we've got mostly what we need. we've got this image with the text overlay, we've got the text columns and let's just do the newsletter and we'll call that a day huh. so now we've got the basic template we need. we're good to go. adding the actual text and images is easy stuff. first we just go into this header section. no, no, the header we're leaving alone. sorry, if we go to this image with overlay section and let me find, there we go. i've got my folder full of pictures and i think i can just drag and drop. let's see, yes, i can just drag and drop images to upload them and boom, there's my picture. now i want the text and boom got it. now something you need to know is like: again, everything's edited here on the sidebar. you know you can't just uh edit things over here and every different kind of content will have you know, its fields. we can change the layout. i think i prefer the full width, though, if i'm honest, we can change the image alignment. you can change the text size. we're going to go with the large and that's it really. just copy and paste your text into the appropriate fields. oh, uh, something you should know here and you know drag and drop your images in. but something you should know here is that you can- is that these content blocks- like this is one block of content, the image with text overlay, this content block over here with the columns, is actually three content blocks in one and you can add column. you can add extra columns- see, there's four now- or you can delete them and that's it. you just repeat the same process as before and only you put in a different picture. now. let's see, uh, we'll call it this one and then copy and paste your text. oh, the newsletter section didn't gets, didn't stay, odd. let's go back and there we go: subscribe to our newsletter. we will select that and that will stay where it is. now. i'm going to take a few minutes to finish out, finish uh creating the page, and then i'll show you what the final page looks like in the editor and on the live site, all right, and then i'll show you how to uh copy content over to everything. that's not a home page. while i work i wanted to include a quick interlude. you might have notiked i kept forgetting to hit this: a green select button when you're choosing things like images. that's important, otherwise your changes won't be saved. it's the same when adding, uh, new sections of content, like the newsletter, like i did earlier. all right now. i'll see you in a bit when i finish the rest of this. now, that only took me a few minutes, all things considered, and we've got the full page, more or less. it's got all the same content. well, it doesn't have the disclaimer, but we're just going to ignore that for now. is you just click save and you're good to go? now, if you want to see your site live, you just go hit this exit button over here, then hit this little i icon by next to the online store link and there you go. there is the home page in all its glory. now, let's assume you have some other pages you want on your website. unfortunately you cannot design them like you can here. we'll go create a page, we'll just call it about us and this is it. this is all you get. it's just a little uh rich text field. you can insert videos and images, that sort of thing. so that's good. so we're going to put our disclaimer here and we're going to change this to shopify and let's throw in one more picture just for funsies, one of the ones we used before. you can access the same photos you uploaded for your home page, which is good, and we're not going to bother with alt text or anything like that, because i am being lazy for the purposes of this video. save as and view page and there you go. you get this single column layout thing. it's not a lot to look at, i'm not going to lie, but it works, it's functional. the whole point of shopify, after all, is the store, so basically you can customize your home page and your store, and all the other pages are pretty much an afterthought. well, so that was pretty simple and i hope you all enjoyed that. found it useful. uh, in for educational, even, maybe even fun. now, in the video description, we are going to be putting a few helpful links in. we will be putting in a link to the written guide for this. we will be putting in most likely links to the shopify and wix reviews so you can compare their actual features and how they work, and you i'll also in be sure to include a link to our site builder category page which shows off all our reviews of all the best website builders, in case shopify and wix aren't working out for you. anyway. that'll be it for today. a.

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How To Migrate from Wix to Shopify [2022 Updated] - ✅ Easy in few clicks - 🚀 No Tech Needed

Welcome to LitExtension, the world-leading Shopping Cart Migration Expert. In this video we are going to show you how to migrate from Wix to Shopify automatikally, accurately and securely with LitExtension. First, login to your LitExtension account and click "Create New Migration". What you need to do is set up your Source Store and Target Store Right here. choose Wix as Source Cart Type. You need to provide your store URL, the email address that you used to register Wix and the password. Now let's move to Target Cart setup. Choose Shopify as Target Cart Type. you need to provide your store URL and the API password. Please watch our video tutorial to get the API Password or follow the wizard appearing on the right of the screen. First, log in to your Shopify admin panel. go to Apps Menu On the bottom of the page. click "Manage private apps". Next, enter your Private app name and contact email. Click “Review disabled Admin API Permissions” and change all Permissions to “Read and Write". Click Save App. At the Admin API area you will see API Password. Copy and paste it to the blank bar on LitExtension website. Now click "Next" and proceed to the next stage of the migration process. At this step you need to select the entities you want to migrate to Shopify. You can choose to migrate only one or some entities, or click "Select all" to migrate all of them. LitExtension also provides powerful Additional Options here to extend your migration possibilities. You can refer to the instruction of each additional option when hovering over its name, or watch the video tutorial next to it to decide the additional option you need. Next, you can easily map your language and order status in this section so that they will be displayed correspondingly on your Target Store. You can click "Start Free Demo migration" to try our migration, or you can click on "Skip Demo Migration" button to perform full migration immediately. While the data is being transferred, it's completely safe to close browser window or shut down your PC. You will receive an email from LitExtension system when the process is complete. Once the migration is done, click on the "Check result" button to see if everything has been transferred correctly. In case of any matters, please contact LitExtension tiknical support team to get them resolved as soon as possible. That's how easy it is to perform successful Wix to Shopify migration with LitExtension. With LitExtension, you will experience the most pleasant shopping cart migration process with our state-of-the-art migration system, with no tiknical skill required and a dedicated support team right at your fingertips. We also ensure 100% uptime for your store during the re-platforming process, which means no sales lost. Besides, we provide 3 months of Free & Unlimited Recent Migrations, Re-migrations and Smart Update to ensure your new store goes live with no data left behind. Last but not least, to prove confidence in our services and their value to you, LitExtension offers a 30-day money back guarantee. So why wait any further? Run Free Demo Migration now.

How To Move To Shopify From ANY Ecommerce Site IN MINUTES! 🔥

so are you thinking about switching over to shopify? well, in this video, i'm going to show you guys how you can transfer your entire store, all your products, customers, orders, everything from any e-commerce platform over to shopify within minutes. let's get it so over here, rich from anywhere. we have been doing e-commerce for many, many years and we have a lot of e-commerce businesses that come to us looking for marketing help, and a lot of them are struggling with their current website builders. they use wix or wordpress or whatever it might be. a lot of them have issues. we recommend shopify all the time. we've been using them for years. there's a reason why they're the biggest and they're the baddest: because they're the best and they want to move over to shopify, but they're a little hesitant because they think it's going to take forever and it's going to be super expensive. this video is going to save you guys weeks and weeks of headache and probably hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars hiring people to do all this stuff for you, okay, so i'm really excited to show this to you. if you are new to rfa, make sure you hit the subscribe button, hit the little bell notification, so you're notified when we drop new gems like this and drop a comment below. let us know if you like our content or just say what's up. we reply to everybody. let's get right into it, man, let me go ahead and share my screen and let me show you, guys, how to move over to shopify. all right, guys, so the name of this app is called lit extension. you're gonna love this. all right, you can click the link in the description of this video. it'll take you right there, and when you get to the home page, you're going to see this right here. right now. i want to show you this really quickly. look, when you hit from, you're going to see all these options. you can literally transfer from any store, right? you got big cartel, big commerce, if you got. if you guys are wix, you got wix. you got, uh, woocommerce- you got woocommerce. you got all these different ones, right? so what you're gonna do is just choose your platform. let's just say you're coming from big commerce and then you're gonna switch to shopify. so what you'll need to do is you'll actually need to log in. so if you don't have an account already, you'll just need to create one, and you can actually do that by just clicking sign up right here and then just go ahead and put in an email name, password, or you can just create an account from facebook or google. so go ahead and sign up and then, as soon as you sign up, it's going to take you into your account where you'll actually start the process. so in this video, the example i'm going to use is actually going to be transferring a godaddy store onto shopify. all right, so let's go ahead and select godaddy right here and then, once we have that going to shopify, we're good, so we're going to go ahead and log into our account. now, once you're logged in, you have an account and everything. what you're going to start doing is you're going to select the source cart type and you're going to actually put in godaddy. and then what you'll do in the source cart url- now this is actually going to be the link that when you're inside of your godaddy account, the link that's in your web browser when you're actually editing the dashboard, that's going to be the link that you're going to put in there. and then you'll go ahead and put in your username and your password and then, on the bottom, where it says target cart setup, that's where you're going to put in shopify and you're going to actually put in your myshopifycom link right here. so just a quick note: you will have to have a shopify store already created in order to start this process. so if you haven't started a shopify store yet, go ahead and go over to shopifycom, create an account and then, once you do, you're going to go into your dashboard, copy the url at the very top and then you're going to go ahead and paste it right here. then you'll go ahead and click configure your migration. now, when you get to the configuration page, this is where you're going to actually select what you want to migrate. okay, so obviously you can select all, and this will select all the products and all the categories that you have inside of your store. with the free version of this, basically, what you're going to be able to do is migrate up to 20 products and 20 categories for free. if you want to migrate more than 20 products, then it's going to be a little bit of a fee, and i'll show you what that is in a minute, but it's really not that bad whatsoever. it's totally worth all the time saving right. so here's the thing. when you come to this- additional options- it says transfer images from categories, product descriptions and everything, and it says that it's an extra charge. but, honestly, every time that i do this, i don't check this and it still transfers all my images and all my product descriptions and everything. so i would just skip that, because it does it anyway for free. but, for instance, let's say that you have a store that has more than 20 products, right, what you'll want to do is you want to click skip free migration and then go ahead and click the orange button right below it. now, when you come to this page, it's actually going to pull how many different products and categories that you have in your store and it's going to give you an estimated price. so for this partikular store, we have 107 total entities that we need to transfer over, and for that amount, it's going to cost us 49 bucks, right, which is not that bad at all. i mean, that is actually amazing when you consider trying to manually migrate 107 products like that would take you probably days, if not weeks, to do that. so what i what i also found is that you can put in a little discount code and you can get five percent off here. so if you go ahead and type in shopify zero five and then hit apply, you'll see that it instantly takes two bucks off as well. so that's a little savings for you, not much, but hey, every little thing counts, you know. so then go ahead and hit: start full migration. and what i've notiked too is that sometimes you can click this and it won't do anything. what i've notiked is that sometimes you have to click it like three or four or five times. then it'll eventually kick in, and when it does, you'll start seeing it's a full migration is running and it'll say that it's currently preparing your migration right now. and if you scroll down here, you can actually see some more details about the migration right. so if you see that it says migration is running in the background and you don't need to keep this browser open until migration completes, it is safe to close this browser. turn off your computer, grab coffee, do whatever you need to do and you'll get a notification when it's completed. if migration gets slow at some point, please pay attention to the alert icon next to the migration progress and it'll explain detected issues. and what i've notiked is that sometimes it might take a little bit to completely migrate, maybe like 15 to 20 minutes or so, but what you will see is like pretty much instantly, within minutes, you'll start to see products start popping up inside of your shopify store, just like this. i mean it's incredible, and if you want, you can actually go and click inside of one of these products right here and you'll see that it actually starts pulling in all the titles, the descriptions, the images, the prices- all this stuff is already in your store, just like that. so i would say, like, give it 15 minutes, maybe 30 minutes or so, and then come back and check it out, and everything should be pretty much done at that point. i haven't really seen anything take much longer than that. now, obviously, i was using godaddy as an example in this video. you might be using something different, so it might be a little bit different depending on what platform you're coming from. so if you do need a little bit extra assistance, we do have a very affordable service where we actually help you and walk you through step by step o.

How to Connect your Domain to Shopify - Updated 2023

[Music]. [Music]. getting a domain directly from shopify may cost you more than getting it from a third party site such as godaddy hostgator, namecheap, bluehost hostinger and many more. this is one of the main reasons why a lot of e-commerce sellers get domains from a third-party site and not from shopify. aside from the domain purchase, you also need to consider the renewal price. if you also hold a lot of stores, it may be beneficial for you to get it from those third-party domain registrar. when you connect a third-party domain to shopify, it points your domain name to your shopify store, so when someone enters your url into their browser, they'll be directly to your shopify ecommerce shop. in this tutorial, we will walk you through the general setup on how to connect your domain to your shopify. it doesn't matter what third party site is that. the process will still be the same. to start off, access your shopify admin at wwwshopifycom. once you're in your shopify admin, click the online store tab on the left side. then select domain on the drop down. you should see your primary domain there, which should be the my shopify domain. click the connect existing domain located on top, then type the domain that you have on the field and click next in order for us to know the values that we need to change, let's click the verify button. it now will show us what values needs to be changed. so we will need to change two values, which is the c name and the a record. next thing that we need to do is to access the third-party site on where you bought your domain for this tutorial. our domain is bought from hostinger, so i'll login to hoststingercom. the domain name system records, or the dns records on host stinger. you can access them on the dns or name server tab. this is where you should see the list of records. we'll be changing the c name and the a record. go back to your shopify window and notike that the current value on cname is bt tutorials, tutorialsonline, and it needs to be changed to shopsmyshopifycom. so just click copy on the required value of cname and go back to your domain registrar. look for the cname that has the same value indicated in shopify and edit it. replace it with the one that's indicated on shopify, which is shopsmyshopifycom, and update the changes. go back to your shopify window and the next value that we need to change is the a record. copy the required ip address and take note of the current ip address. go back to your domain register window and look for the au record indicated on shopify. replace it with the required ip address and update your changes. go back to your shopify window and click the verify again button. it should then show you that the primary domain has been updated to your personalized url. you now have updated your domain and when your customers enter your url, all of them will be directed to your shopify store. do you like this content? if you do, don't forget to like this video. click the subscribe button and ring that notification bell so you will get notified in our next [Music] video. [Music] you.