Domain Transfers and Registration

Open Source Collective is offering domain transfer to it's hosted collectives.

Domains

Open Source Collective uses Namecheap as our domain registrar. Transferring a domain to Namecheap costs around ~$15. Renewal costs will vary depending on the top-level domain. All costs are charged to your Collective.

To initiate a transfer of a domain to our registrar, please reach out to ​[e-mail] and fill out the domain transfer form.

Transferring a domain to Open Source Collective will require you to 'unlock' the domain with your current registrar and share an Authorization Code (or Auth Code/EPP Code) with us.

Domain Manager

Following the successful transfer of the domain, Open Source Collective will extend an invitation to the respective collective admin as Domain Manager. The Domain Manager will manage the domain billings such as coordinating Domain Renewal with OSC, and will get limited permissions like changing name servers, etc.

Open Source Collective will be managing the domain renewal and the Domain Manager will be tasked to coordinate and remind the fiscal host to renew the domain and responsible for domain renewal reimbursements. The domain Manager or the Collective Admin also needs to make sure that the collective has appropriate budget for the domains.

Using a CDN

It is recommended that you use a CDN like CloudFlare to manage your domain. This enables Open Source Collective to act as the domain owner while you maintain your own domain's DNS configuration.

If you have not done so already, we recommend that you set your domain's nameservers to those provided by your CDN before initiating a transfer. Instructions to do so can be found in your CDN's documentation.

Updating Nameservers

Open Source Collective or the collective Domain Manager can update the domain's configuration as necessary but, as detailed above, we prefer that your organization remain in control of day-to-day configuration through a CDN provider like Cloudflare.