I'm looking for advice on how to handle a web domain for a client (more of a charity case, actually).
I recently helped a lady out with a website for her small business selling jewelry.
She had an existing website but couldn't do sales from it.
Her webmaster seems to know what he's doing, but she's a techno-boob and they didn't have a good relationship.
He controlled her domain name (see: techno-boob) and once he understood that she wanted to move away from him he offered to assist with transferring it to her control (charging for his time, naturally).
He told her that he was getting out of the web design business, so in my mind there was no problem.
During the time when I began building her a Squarespace site he was unavailable to do the transfer because he was sick with Covid. So in her haste to get up and going she opted to get a new domain name, so that's how we set the site up.
And now here's the question.
The webmaster is available again (glad he made it) and ready to do the transfer.
She's wondering if it's worth the bother / expense.
In my mind she has an establish domain that previous customers recognize, so I think she should pay him to transfer it to her control with the Registrar I set her up with, and so I'm looking for input here from others.
If she does agree to do the transfer, I know that I can point the domain to her Squarespace page, but I need to figure out if there's a way to do it in a way that issues a 301 so that over time she could retire the old domain (if she wishes).
Anyway, I'm puzzling over this myself and will come to some conclusion soon, but any input from the gang here would be appreciated, thanks!
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