To transfer your gTLD domain from your current registrar to 1st Domains, you will need to request the Auth Code from your existing registrar. This code is required to verify the transfer, and the domain cannot be transferred without it. The Auth Code will be sent to the current registrant’s contact email address. 

Once a transfer request has been submitted through 1st Domains, the current registrar of the domain name will receive a notification of the request. The current registrar may take up to 10 business days to approve or decline the transfer. You may or may not receive verification materials from the current registrar during this time.

Each registrar has their own policies concerning transfers away to another registrar. It is a good idea to contact your current registrar in order to make yourself familiar with their policies in order to avoid potential delays. Also some registrar's require you to have your domain with them in order to use their services, so please check with them to make sure that any services you have with them will continue to work once the domain has been transferred to 1st Domains. If those services are to stop working when the domain name is transferred away you will need to look at moving those services to 1st domains.

Some registrars have names locked against transfers that must be removed before a request can be submitted and some may send a verification email to verify the transfer away.

gTLD such as .com .net .org .biz and .info domain names require an Auth code or sometimes call a EPP code for transfer. You can request this from your current Registrar.

gTLD transfer process can take upto 5 - 10 days to complete

You can initiate the transfer using the transfer page here: https://1stdomains.nz/transfer/