{"id":383,"date":"2025-11-26T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/kb\/transferring-a-co-uk-domain\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:28:06","slug":"transferring-a-co-uk-domain-to-cloudabove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/transferring-a-co-uk-domain-to-cloudabove\/","title":{"rendered":"Transferring a .co.uk domain to cloudabove"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"banner-warning\">\u26a0\ufe0f Note: If your domain is already being used for email, a website, or any other services, please read the next section carefully before starting the transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before you begin (important for existing services)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>If there are any active services on your domain (for example, a live website or email accounts), please <strong>contact our support team before you request the transfer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll make sure your DNS zone is set up on our side first so that your website and email continue to work during and after the transfer. If you\u2019re not sure whether anything is currently using the domain, just reach out and we\u2019ll help you check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How .co.uk transfers work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Transferring a .co.uk domain is simpler than transferring a .com, and there are <strong>no transfer fees<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike .com domains, .co.uk domains use an <strong>IPS Tag<\/strong> to identify the registrar. To move your .co.uk domain from your current registrar to us, follow these steps:<br><br>1) Ask your current Registrar to change the IPS Tag on your domain to:<br><br><strong>CLOUDABOVE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Submit the transfer request to us via your client area: <a href=\"https:\/\/my.cloudabove.com\/cart.php?a=add&amp;domain=transfer\">https:\/\/my.cloudabove.com\/cart.php?a=add&amp;domain=transfer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If at any point you\u2019re unsure, or you\u2019d like us to check your DNS settings before you proceed, please get in touch and we\u2019ll be happy to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26a0\ufe0f Note: If your domain is already being used for email, a website, or any other services, please read the next section carefully before starting the transfer. Before you begin (important for existing services) If there are any active services on your domain (for example, a live website or email&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}