and later found out that he had created his previous website with Vistaprint’s website service. When it came time to transfer his domain, he found out that he would need to pay $20 just to transfer the domain from Vistaprint! I did some research
Does Vistaprint own your domain name? How to get control of your website and domain name, or switch from a Vistaprint website and keep your domain name.
At this stage we cannot confirm if the .vistaprint gTLD will be open to the public. For this reason we'll still allow requests to reach our database but should the gTLD end up being classified as closed then any requests we receive will be cancelled
We have received your request to transfer your domain name you have registered with Vistaprint to another registrar. Vistaprint can release the domain to you, but you must transfer the domain to a new registrar. The transfer deadline is the