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At last it's done. In the end I had to change the registrar via nominet at £12. The site was back up within a few hours. I'd have liked 1and1 to do this, or godaddy in fact. I seem to remember doing this before transferring from 1and1 and again it cost me. I did a transfer once with 123reg but that went trouble free and cost nothing so where the issue lies I don't know, I'm guessing 1and1 as everything seems to take an age. Done, for now. All I had to do was authorise a transfer and input ip tag on the account for the relevant domain which I did at the beginning.

Just to add. Am on day 11 of the domain transfer. Emailed 1and1 this morning to ask how long and still waiting for an answer. Can't believe how bad they are.

Most things are trial and error. Sometimes with unlimited hosting it goes okay for a while then it plays up and you move onto another. The thing with 1and1 is their dns changes have never been quick. I had a domain under the french 1and1 and when calling the UK helpline I mentioned France and they said (or shouted) we don't have 1and1 in France! ! Unbelievable. Only had unlimited issues with the none mainstream hosters.

Well, day 8 of a so called possible 7 day domain transfer care of 1&1.

I have been with 1and1 for a few years (as well as others) and have to say they have been the worst to work with. Their DNS changes take aaaaaaages to come into effect. Their email help is ridiculous getting copy and paste type replies. I recently had hosting issues with hostpap - they updated their servers (PHP vers) and made a couple of my sites unable to run due to them being joomla 1.5 (no need to tell me its no longer supported, the site was fine) and as i couldn't get into the site to correct any errors it had as a result of their update I moved to godaddy where the sites ran fine where the DNS thing started. Back to the domain issues, after 72 hours+ of the DNS not coming into effect and not getting an answer from 1and1 I decided to transfer it over to another provider and I will be moving other domains and hosting asap. Lets hope the transfer goes ok, my site (business) is currently being forwarded and will probably affect its google position and affect my business! I wont be using their cheap deals again, its only a couple of quid a year more. Rant nearly over!

May or may not be of use but I was doing the same for a client a while ago and because they didn't have ADSL (rural) many CMS software were slow to enable editing (they're not very patient) so I went for cushycms, an online cms, no install needed, just place a class="cushycms" where they want to edit. All depends on want you want it for. Nice site/portfolio by the way oneeyedpauly

Hi Newbie to the site. Been developing for a while now, do bits of everything but not fluent in anything!!! Hope to be of help and maybe ask for some myself.