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    • seagreen
      seagreen last edited by

      A client's site ranks very well for extremely competitive terms.  The google rankings have been stable for over a year.  There has been an organizational shake up, and the 'registrant' and administrative/billing/technical contact info needs to be updated, including the physical address.  I have been hesitant to modify the information for risk of a negative impact on the rankings.

      Will changes to the registrant/contacts/address info at the registrar have a negative impact on current organic rankings?

      Thanks,
      Greg

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      • RobertFisher
        RobertFisher last edited by

        We acquire clients and often change registries and find that they have old or incorrect information. We go ahead and make the changes as quickly as possible (really for their protection). We have not seen any impact in rankings as the result.

        So if what you are changing is to a different Registrar, an administrative or billing contact, or a technical contact, or an address for notice or business location, there should not be an issue in my estimation.

        Best

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        • EGOL
          EGOL last edited by

          In purchasing domains we have changed... registrar from an Asian company to a USA company, registrant, all contact persons, all physical address, all email address, moved hosting (from one USA host to another USA host), changed DNS, changed IPs.... all of that was done the same day.

          No problems.

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