: How do I continue web forwarding while moving dns registration? I help manage a website. Its domain is currently registered to Network Solutions. They also provide web forwarding to our website

@Si4351233

You are right that once the domain is transferred Network Solutions would stop serving it, however having said that while the transfer is pending they will continue serving it. The process is designed so that downtime is minimised and preferably non existent. Now not having worked with Network Solutions specifically I can't be sure about their specific policies, however most that I have worked for in the past have continued to maintain the service for up to a week after the transfer has completed in order to give the global DNS network time to propagate the changes and query the new provider. What I have generally done in the past has been to sign up with the new provider and start the transfer process, and while the transfer is pending add the records straight away so that once they come online it will work straight away., but even if it doesn't allow you to do that as long as you monitor it and do it for a low traffic time for your site you should still be able to achieve low downtime by watching for when the transfer completed and adding the appropriate records straight away. In the mean time while the transfer is going through, and more than likely for at least a few days after, Network Solutions should continue to keep the registration running while the remaining connections stop coming in and start going to Google Domains instead.

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