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A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Post by CWuestefeld »

As noted elsewhere, it's the hosting plans that they make their money from, and so that's what I'd aim to transfer. So I've got a two-part question:

1) How does one transfer all the DNS information, including the A and MX records (anything else I need?)? Is this all provider-specific? Or can they just port in the existing data?

2) When I'm ready, I'd want to set up a web site, and especially a mail server. Any recommendations? (I know this has been asked plenty in the past, but this seems a good time to make a list excluding GoDaddy)

Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Post by mruser »

RexM wrote: post #13

After you get your EPP codes entered and GoDaddy is notified that you intend to transfer the domain, you can either wait 5 days for GoDaddy to release the domain, or you can go in and immediately accept the transfer by following these instructions: http://support.godaddy.com/help/6040?locale=en Then it's just a matter of waiting for everything to finalize. I started the process this morning and it still isn't finaliz…

This is true, and important for anyone transferring today.

Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Post by treitnauer »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #21

As noted elsewhere, it's the hosting plans that they make their money from, and so that's what I'd aim to transfer. So I've got a two-part question: 1) How does one transfer all the DNS information, including the A and MX records (anything else I need?)? Is this all provider-specific? Or can they just port in the existing data? 2) When I'm ready, I'd want to set up a web site, and especially a mail server. Any recomm…

1) Transferring DNS is a bit of a pain indeed. Luckily GoDaddy lets you export the zone for each domain from their control panel. I would just send this to your new registrar and they can import the settings. Some registrars also give you an option to add DNS records when starting the transfer.

2) This might be helpful for email / website / blog hosting: http://iwantmyname.com/services – these hosted apps and services can all be used with your own domain.

(Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder at iWantMyname)

Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Post by courtewing »

justinmares wrote: post #19
Shpigford wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used the opportunity to do some house cleaning. I had to quit being sentimental and be honest with myself about what I would _really_ use. Then I just let the ones I didn't want anymore stay with GoDaddy to eventually expire.

Just a warning - GoDaddy will automatically charge your credit card to renew current domains. You have to remove your payment information or delete the domains.

This isn't entirely accurate. GoDaddy has both auto-renewal and manual renewal. I'm not sure what the default is these days, but you can set your domains to manual renewal and let them expire. Be warned: you're going to get a ton of email notifications from GoDaddy as your expiration dates approach.

Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Post by larrys »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #21

As noted elsewhere, it's the hosting plans that they make their money from, and so that's what I'd aim to transfer. So I've got a two-part question: 1) How does one transfer all the DNS information, including the A and MX records (anything else I need?)? Is this all provider-specific? Or can they just port in the existing data? 2) When I'm ready, I'd want to set up a web site, and especially a mail server. Any recomm…

First, manage the dns with a third party dns service. Such as http://zoneedit.com/pricing.html or similar. Don't use the dns of the registrar.

But if you are talking about moving over just dns servers (not the records that are in those dns servers) that is automatically ported over when you change registrars. But if the dns servers are the dns servers of the registrar that isn't what you want. Which is one of the reasons to use third party dns. If you switch registrars the gaining registrar automatically sets the primary and secondary dns to what it was at the old registrar.

I wrote this fast but if you have any questions let me know. This is what I do.

To answer about mail server depends on whether you mean the mail server will run on your equipment or on a VPS or?

Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Post by larrys »

jeffepp wrote: post #5
j79 wrote: post #4

This is a great step by step guide for transferring domains. Exactly what I needed (I tried earlier and quickly got lost!) I do have a question for anyone who could help: Can I transfer a domain which is set to expire in 2019? And, are there typically fees for transferring a domain?

It seems that the transfer adds a year thankfully and does not reset the clock

The only thing I would add is that a domain can never have more than 10 years on it. So if you created a domain today with a 10 year period and decided to transfer it in 3 months it wouldn't get a year added to it when you transferred. Note that the year is not actually added to the domain by the registrar. It's part of the way the system works for .com .net domains with Verisign which operates the backend for all registrars.

Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Post by saturn7 »

justinmares wrote: post #19
Shpigford wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used the opportunity to do some house cleaning. I had to quit being sentimental and be honest with myself about what I would _really_ use. Then I just let the ones I didn't want anymore stay with GoDaddy to eventually expire.

Just a warning - GoDaddy will automatically charge your credit card to renew current domains. You have to remove your payment information or delete the domains.

Thanks for that, didn't even realize you could delete domains before they expired. Just deleted 30 domains from godaddy that i had no intention of renewing.

Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

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Post by Jasber »

Shpigford wrote: post #16
obituary_latte wrote: post #10

I really wish I had a spare $754 ($681 with code) to transfer all my dumb domain names.

I used the opportunity to do some house cleaning. I had to quit being sentimental and be honest with myself about what I would _really_ use. Then I just let the ones I didn't want anymore stay with GoDaddy to eventually expire.

Why not post them somewhere and transfer them to someone who might use them?
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