Originally Posted by
ScottC
Every move is different, but the last time I moved a domain it was as painless as could be.
I made sure the site was correctly configured at dreamhost, then changed the DNS entries at Godaddy. 20 minutes later the Dreamhost site was live, and 1and1 was gone.
This was exactly my experience when I moved to Dreamhost (thanks, Scott, for recommending them -- they've been terrific). I think my email and website were up and running on Dreamhost in 5 to 10 minutes. Godaddy seems very good about propagating domain changes through the DNS system.