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A practical look at domain transfers for a plumber
26 Sep 2024
How a plumber deals with domain transfers — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a 404 that still returns 200. This is where domain transfers breaks for a plumber.
The vendor portal had silently rotated the key for domain transfers, but a plumber was still using the old one. Every outbound message bounced quietly.
The chain of trust for domain transfers starts at the registrar. If the registrar account uses an email nobody reads, every downstream fix is temporary.
After the move, a 404 that still returns 200 broke search indexing for a plumber. Google kept serving the old pages for another nineteen days.
We hand over a one-page document after every domain transfers job. It says what was changed, what the login is, and what to check if something feels wrong. a plumber keeps it in a drawer they actually open.
We billed a plumber two hours for domain transfers. The previous agency billed forty hours and left a 404 that still returns 200 behind. Complexity is not expertise.
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