Domain Name Registration domain transfer

Effective 30 June 2023, IBM Cloud will no longer support the IBM Domain Name Registration service, which IBM offers in partnership with Tucows Inc.

During the week of 26 – 30 June 2023, Tucows and IBM Cloud will automatically migrate your domains over to Tucows' retail domain platform, Hover. On the day of the migration, the registrant's email address receives an email from Hover that contains:

• A welcome message
• Login instructions
• Instructions to add your billing information and set up 2FA
• Steps to double check your account information
• Hover's contact information and support hours

As a Hover customer, you benefit from a clean and intuitive domain management control panel. You also get an expanded selection of premium top-level domains, and great customer support. After migration, you automatically transition to Tucows' retail domains brand Hover's Terms of Service.

Tucows moves all domains with the same registrant's email address into the same Hover account. If all the domains that you manage have the same registrant email, these domains migrate to a single Hover account. If you manage domains for multiple registrants, and therefore have multiple registrant emails on file, Tucows creates multiple Hover accounts, one for each unique registrant email.