Moving hosting of existing URL on Dotster to Business Catalyst?*

We just finished building a great site for a client. He is currently hosted at Dotster.com, and wants to move his existing URL that he has had for many years, over to BC to use the services (including hosting). My question is how do go about this specifically?
I have no experience with Dotster, and want to make sure this goes as smoothly as possible.
Secondly, he's asking
How do we import all my current site-members and newsletter subscribers? 
He uses Constant Contact right now, but I do believe I read somewhere that you can export and import into BC? Does Dotster have something to do with this as well? Please excuse my inexperience with that domain registrar.
Thanks so much in advance!
This system really is amazing, and we are so delighted to be able to offer it to our clients! (Plans to become an upgraded partner, as soon as we can afford to!)

Hey there,
With the people you have the domain with you only now need that domain. If you have hosting with them then you just need to close that element down.
If he has email running through that service or another service using that domain you just need to point the A records to Business Catalyst.
You can find out how to do this and more through the knowledgebase : http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/846/cpsid_84622.html
To get data across you can export a spreadsheet template for customers and marketing lists to form your content ready for import. How you convert and transfer over you will need to do in the prefered manner. If the old data has a spreadsheet export you can run spreadsheet macro's to convert the data or manually copy and maste coloumns etc.
BC MUST have the structure it has kept for its import spreadsheets or it will not work.
There are a few things on this also on the knowledgebase:
http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/search/index.html?cx=014941776559396484648%3Aekxqgmgvzay& cof=FORID%3A9%3BNB%3A1&ie=UTF-8&q=import

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