Hi all,

At work, it looks very much like we'll be changing our company domain name.
As it stands, our existing domain is legally owned by the previous owners of the company (the new owners forgot to transfer ownership ), and they claim we owe them money. As we don't want to open that particular can of worms, we're looking at migrating to a new domain. As the in-house good-with-computers guy, it looks like that's going to fall to me to sort out.

Here's a rough timeline:

Now: Purchase new domain(s), point to existing address
Soon: Start printing new company stationery with new address
July: When existing hosting contract ends, move hosting to new domain name (different hosting co.) and point old domain to new hosting
Ongoing: Make sure all contacts have our new addresses
2010/11: Stop paying for old domain, let it die

Any comments on this? The email is the bit I'm not sure about, is it possible to have both domains running for email at the same time (we use MS exchange)? I can live with a bit of downtime on our website, but I need email to be as seamless as possible.

If anyone's done this sort of thing before, I'd appreciate your comments.

Ta!

I do it all the time.
You can have multiple email domains in Exchange. Just add them to the recipient policy & tick the box to tell Exchange it's in charge of it.
Create an A record for your exchange server in the new domain. Create an MX record pointing to your new A record & update rDNS with your ISP.