Managing Domains

[Shine]

Wonder if anyone can help?

I have a couple of domains registered with 123, I now have sites ready to use them with at 1&1. What next? I'd rather avoid transfering the domains across to 1&1 if possible, but I'm a bit clueless about the terminilogy.

Do I need to change the nameservers, the DNS or what?

Any help much appreciated

[charlie123]

you should be able to retain control of your domains through the 123 control panel as long as you dont change the TAG

point the domains at 1&1 by changing the nameservers only
might take a few hours to resolve to all worldwide DNS

[andysears]

I believe that you can just change the 'DNS' server to those of 1&1, not sure about 123 but if they allow this or you can do this via a control panel then this should not be a problem. You can then control the domains from your 1&1 account pointing to the website directory of your choice of forward to another site. To achieve this I think you must also go through the process of transferring a domain to 1&1 but select the option of pointing an external domain to 1&1, this is then added to your control panel and available to use once you have changed the dns at 123.

Hope that makes sense.

[charlie123]

in my experience 123 control panel is second to none you can do almost anything and they have no hidden cost for transfering etc
exceptional service!

[Shine]

OK, think I've got it in the right order:

The registrar, tag (whatever) remains at 123
I've changed the nameservers to the 2 provided by 1&1
I've changed the DNS in the 1&1 control panel to point at the folder where the site files are.

Now I just sit and wait for the cash to roll in

It's a new site so I'm not bothered about the forwarding being down for a day or so, as long as it happens eventually.

Is that about right?