I’m looking for help transitioning a domain from my personal Vercel account to my company’s account.
Originally, I registered the domain and set up its DNS under my personal (Hobby) account. Since then, ownership and management of the domain have been transferred to my company, and I’d like to complete the transition within Vercel.
Here’s the current situation:
The domain’s DNS is already pointed to the correct company account.
The required vc-domain-verify= TXT record is correctly set and verified.
The web app is deployed and running correctly from the company account.
Inside the Company project’s domain tab the connection is correct however, inside Vercel’s Home Page-> Domain when I try to connect the domain in the company account, I get the following error:
“Cannot add [domain-name] since it’s already in use by one of your projects.”
Both mine and the company’s account plans are Hobby as we are a start-up still in development phase. Anyone has an idea how to proceed?
I am not able to remove/delete it from my personal account as I get "[domain-name] cannot be removed since it’s still using Vercel Nameservers. Please remove Vercel Nameservers to remove [domain-name]. I fear that removing the Nameservers will delete my DNS’s and also to get acces to the domain registrar I need to get in contact with higher-ups in the company.
Could you confirm to me with certainty that if I remove the Nameservers and delete the Domain from my private account, I will then be able to add it to the company’s one? In that case will the DNS be removed?
Hi @evtimkostadinov, are you able to use the Move option from the Domains settings on the dashboard? This should be able to give you a zero downtime experience. Please follow these docs:
The transfer of domain through the “Move” option is only possible to teams, and users which you share a team with. As previously mentioned, I am trying to avoid adding additional costs as the project is still in development and there are other free alternatives providers which we could chose. I have so far enjoyed Vercel quite a lot that is why I am trying to retain this solution.
@evtimkostadinov thanks for sharing this. In that case, removing the domain from the current account (all projects) and adding it to the organization (company) should work for you.