We support four types of transfers:
- Transferring everything on a membership from one person to another.
- Transferring an account from one member to another.
- Transferring individual assets from one member's account to another member's account.
- Transferring funds from one member's account to another member's account. (Although such transfers become nonrefundable; we're not a money transfer service.)
The current member can set up any of those for you with minimal effort. It takes less than five minutes. For all of the options except transferring everything, you'll need to have a membership of your own first.
The only thing we don't allow is for them to just hand over their username and password and book it. If they try that, they may or may not realize that they are setting you up for serious problems (and potentially a $50 fee) down the road. Don't let them!
That's pretty much it. If you need it, here's more background about how our system works.
At NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, responsibility is divided into two distinct pieces: a membership and an account. A membership represents an individual person. A person can only have one membership, which has their real/legal name on it. Memberships cannot be shared or transferred.
An account is a separate piece under the membership that contains money, sites, domains, everything related to hosting for a specific entity (which might be the same person, or it might be a company, club, or organization.).
Usually, one membership has one account. But a web developer may have a bunch of accounts on their membership, one for each customer. And big projects may have a bunch of memberships sharing access to one account. We support all of those things.
Here are some takeover tips:
- Make sure our service is a good fit for you. If it isn't, it's best to find that out beforehand.
- Create your own membership in your own name. Never access a membership created by someone else.
- Establish with the other person exactly what you are taking over. This could range from a whole account full of services down to a single site or domain name. The important thing is that you both agree on exactly what is to be transferred.
- If you are receiving individual assets (sites, domains, databases), you'll have to create and fund an account first. (Otherwise they would immediately stop working!)