One Domain Transfer. Two Failures. The Second One Almost Cost $50,000.

Heads up if you've ever moved a domain between registrar accounts..

A client of mine did a routine transfer last week. Different accounts, same registrar -- just one of those things that happens when you've been online long enough to lose track of where everything lives.

Transfer completed fine. Confirmation email and everything.

What they didn't tell him: every DNS record he had -- gone. Wiped clean. Fresh slate.

Funnel hub went offline instantly. Caught it fast, fixed it in 10 minutes. No big deal.

Except.. two weeks later he DMs me.

"Hey.. my email hasn't been working."

That's when we realized -- when they wiped everything, they wiped everything.

His email records had been gone the entire time. Every email he sent went nowhere. Every reply he was waiting on -- never came.

This guy sells a $50,000 offer.

There's no way to know what conversations were happening during those 14 days. No way to get them back. No rewind button when the place people are replying to doesn't exist.

So -- before you transfer a domain anywhere -- screenshot your DNS records first. All of them. Takes 2 minutes and it's the kind of thing you'll be really glad you did.

And after the transfer completes.. don't just check if the site loads. Send yourself a test email. Confirm the reply comes back.

The obvious stuff gets caught. It's the quiet stuff that costs you.

🚀

- James

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