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The Dreamhost web hosting thread below was started by jkbull on 2010-01-30 07:25:24:

Post Reply? I am taking over responsibility for a domain that is registered and hosted elsewhere, and want it registered and hosted on DreamHost. The current owner has said they will agree to the transfer when asked by their current registrar and host. The Dreamhost instructions at https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.transfer& say (among other things) that: “You should do any nameserver changes (e.g. to ns1.dreamhost.com, etc) before transferring!” But this can only be done by the current owner, and I don’t want to bother them with it. It is OK with me if the website doesn’t work at all for a few days. (It isn’t working currently because the hosting has expired but not the domain name). Is that the only problem that will occur if I don’t do the “nameserver changes” before the transfer? Or will not doing the “nameserver changes” have some other consequences?

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