Does changing domain registrar hurt you?

[tagmug]

So just a quick question here.. I have read yes and no, and can myself make a case for both, so mostly looking for input from people who have done it.

When I had someone build me my first poker site I had him to register the domain under his own name at some random registrar. I would now like to move the domain to my godaddy account under my name. Does this change have negative impact on my rankings? I obviously dont really care about 1 week drop or something like, but could it somehow for an example in the SE's eyes hurt my inbound links reliability?

[Michael Martinez]

Over the past few years I have participated in hundreds of registrar changes and have not on any occasion seen any degradation in search visibility or rankings because of the changes.

[Giorgio]

Over the past few years I have participated in hundreds of registrar changes and have not on any occasion seen any degradation in search visibility or rankings because of the changes.

+1

[dietcola]

the move its self shouldnt hurt -

the data maybe taking into consideration for geo locating your domain- so if you first reg was india but site is targeted to UK then having the UK whois maybe beneficial to the authority of your site - also you new host location if changed draws relevance here too...


but no - you should be affected in serps unless you move it to a banned ip or something like that - then i could see it being negative...