what am i doing here?

Migrating domains to a new domain registrar

porkbun seemed reasonable value and I’ve seen others using them lately. (certainly a saving for me, for .uk and .co.uk)

steps

• Signed up at porkbun
• read their kb article on transferring, which led to another on transferring a .uk
• followed the steps:
  • tell porkbun the domain to transfer in,
  • set their requested txt DNS record on UK2
  • hit finish on porkbun
  • then initiate the transfer on UK2
    • this differs from most other registrars, dunno why we have to be different…
  • this took around 2-10 mins for each domain I transferred
  • Once that was done, they let me know with each site
• I then reconfigured each of my sites’ DNS.
  • Thankfully UK2 retained my config and didn’t drop it instantly on transfer, but if I were to do this again I’d look to take copies of all that info ahead of time!
• I then checked on my email provider’s end to ensure that they could still see my domains no problem
  • I screwed up one mx record, which it found
• I sent some test mails to my email addresses, to see if they made it through
  • most did, but one didn’t have an A or AAAA record, which gmail seems to denote as a failed lookup, even though the MX/TXT stuff was all there
    • quickly spun something up for it to point to and this fixed

summary

all in all, took me a good while, but I’ve not done this in an awfully long time. shout out to porkbun’s documentation tbh.