A host move changes A records and maybe nameservers. A domain unlock changes who can steal the name. ICANN describes registrar lock / EPP status codes such as clientTransferProhibited for a reason. Mixing the two “because we are migrating” is how names walk away. This URL stays. I’m Mostapha; I buy and sell names from … Read more
Crawl budget is a webmaster problem: too many URLs, and crawlers waste time. The W3C’s old advice still holds: cool URIs don’t change, and robots.txt exists to keep bots out of the junk. Domain investors create the junk on purpose: parameter farms, tag archives, and doorway folders, and then list the name as if none … Read more
The other checklist on this site is about not unlocking the domain when you change hosts. This URL is the twin: do not delete MX “to finish the migration.” Buyer mail is how offers arrive. An MX record is only a pointer to a mail server; Cloudflare’s note on MX records is enough. RFC 2142 … Read more
SEO people lose sleep over orphan pages: URLs with no internal links, so crawlers and humans never arrive. The W3C’s architecture of the web cares about stable identifiers. MDN’s note on making pages reachable is the same idea in plainer clothes. None of that is an appraisal of a domain you intend to push at … Read more
