Domain names and hosting

[Messiah Khan]

I currently have my website hosted with Register1. Very happy with the service and all is good. However I used to have my site hosted with Easyspace. Wasn't happy with their service, which is why I moved away. The site is now hosted with register1, but tyhe domain was owned/controlled by Easyspace. The domain is about to lapse so I need to renew it. I have asked for the code to transfer it to someone else. Now do I;

Move it to Register1 and have everything controlled by 1 company

or

Move it to an independant company, and if so, who?

 

[Messiah Khan]

Register1 are perfectly good for domain names, you might as well just move it across to them.

Cool beans. Have put in the transfer request. What sort of downtime should I expect while it transfers?