It may sound simple, but there are various permutations of a plain "domain transfer." The phrase can have very different implications to different parties, and, to make matters even more complicated, any given transfer can involve one or more of these disparate meanings within the same operation.
In other words, a domain transfer could refer to any of the following:
- Changing the owner or registrant of a domain name from one entity to another (Change of registrant)
- Moving a domain from one registrar to another (Registrar transfer)
- Changing the nameserver delegation of a domain name (nameserver redelegation, Change of Operator or even DNS Transfer–the last of which can easily be confused with AXFR or IXFR zone transfers)
- Moving a domain name between user accounts within a registrar, web provider, managed DNS provider or similar (domain...