[jrochkind1]

Can you say more about how this works? I find it intimidating. And I don't understand how the cost works -- if I'm in the middle of my term with the first registrar, do I get a refund when I move it over? Like when you moved from Gandi to Namecheap and back in 10 months, does that mean you paid 3x registration, or did you get proportional refunds when transferring?

[universa1]

this depends on the tld. for most tlds you buy another year of registration on transfer and thus extending the expiration.

for example for .de domains though, the remaining time on your registration is dropped and you start fresh from the transferal day.

[psz]

For .pl the transfer is free, but it also does not extend expiration period (it stays the same).