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Managing domain transfers at a restaurant
27 Apr 2026
How a restaurant 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 restaurant.
Big agencies solve domain transfers with a team. We solve it with a checklist and a dig command. The result is the same; the invoice is shorter.
After the move, a 404 that still returns 200 broke search indexing for a restaurant. Google kept serving the old pages for another nineteen days.
A free certificate and a correct domain transfers record will do more for a restaurant than a redesign that ships with a 404 that still returns 200 still in place.
When we onboard a restaurant, the first thing we check is domain transfers. It tells us more about the previous provider than any sales call.
We solved domain transfers for a restaurant by moving it behind a reverse proxy. The old configuration stayed live as a fallback for forty-eight hours, then we pulled it.
You do not need a status page if you have never gone down. a restaurant is on month fourteen of zero downtime, and the secret is boring: correct domain transfers and a host that does not oversell.
Automate domain transfers if you can. If you cannot, write a quarterly reminder in a calendar that someone actually checks. a 404 that still returns 200 is what happens when nobody does either.
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