1) Login to your current registrar’s control panel.
2) Change the A record to reflect your new registrar’s IP address.
3) Change any other A or MX records. For MX, I recommend setting the record to the domain itself, if your web host supports email. For example, if you’re switching SomeDomain.com, set the MX records to mx1.somedomain.com, and if two are required, mx2.somedomain.com.
4) Log out of that control panel and log in to the new registrar.
5) Set up a “site”, if it’s also your web host, using the new domain name.
6) Set up email addresses (admin@, abuse@, etc)
7) Edit the zone file to reflect mx1, mx2 etc as MX records.

That’s it! Wait

Originally posted 2009-05-01 14:01:59.