Do existing years transfer along with domains?
 

If a domain expires in 3 years, does the registrar it gets transfered to honor those existing years?

Most all registrars do, but it's not automatic for some TLDs, in particular .com and .net ... it's up to the receiving registrar to decide whether to add the extra years on or not.

Registry and Registrar expiry dates in the .com and .net TLDs are two separate things and thus can diverge substantially.

With all that said, if you're dealing with one of the better known registrars that has a decent reputation, the extra years should transfer over fine.

Ron

DirectNic and Namecheap list yearly prices on their transfer info pages...

http://www.directnic.com/features/transfers.php

http://www.namecheap.com/learn/trans...cefor=transfer

Dotster.com says transfers are $8.95/yr too.

Looks like GoDaddy honors existing years without charging.