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Can anyone point me to a relatively easy walkthrough on transferring my domains away from GoDaddy (to namecheap, I guess)?

raphael_lee 15y ago
I used this: http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... from one of previous HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097
- jhancock 15y ago
  The http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... link you mention needs extra attention. I just moved my final domain from godaddy to namecheap last night. I didn't have this tutorial at the time, but this is the process I used and it worked flawless. I started the process about midnight...took less than an hour of fiddling around in total...this morning, the transfer is complete and safely in namecheap's hands ;) The reason I want people to read Jeff's article is because a year ago I did about 35 xfers from godaddy and it was not as easy as it is today. Now, I would almost call the process "painless".
- jhancock 15y ago
  The http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... link you mention needs extra attention. I just moved my final domain from godaddy to namecheap last night. I didn't have this tutorial at the time, but this is the process I used and it worked flawless. I started the process about midnight...took less than an hour of fiddling around in total...this morning, the transfer is complete and safely in namecheap's hands ;) The reason I want people to read Jeff's article is because a year ago I did about 35 xfers from godaddy and it was not as easy as it is today. Now, I would almost call the process "painless".
- oozcitak 15y ago
  Don't skip (as I did) steps 15-19. Otherwise, you'll wait a week before GoDaddy releases the domain to your new registrar. When you manually accept the transfer as described in the blog post, the process should complete in a few hours.
karlzt 15y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097
wccrawford 15y ago
Make sure you have your DNS entries written down BEFORE you start the transfer. I didn't. It was a pain to recreate it from memory. GoDaddy deletes it immediately.
- joejohnson 15y ago
  Ok, thank you.
freejack 15y ago
Shameless Plug: Here's a complete tutorial for moving to Hover - https://www.hover.com/help/godaddy-complete-transfer-preparation-process https://www.hover.com/help/godaddy-complete-transfer-prepara... Let me know if we can help with anything.

raphael_lee 15y ago

I used this: http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... from one of previous HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097

jhancock 15y ago
The http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... link you mention needs extra attention. I just moved my final domain from godaddy to namecheap last night. I didn't have this tutorial at the time, but this is the process I used and it worked flawless. I started the process about midnight...took less than an hour of fiddling around in total...this morning, the transfer is complete and safely in namecheap's hands ;) The reason I want people to read Jeff's article is because a year ago I did about 35 xfers from godaddy and it was not as easy as it is today. Now, I would almost call the process "painless".
jhancock 15y ago
The http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... link you mention needs extra attention. I just moved my final domain from godaddy to namecheap last night. I didn't have this tutorial at the time, but this is the process I used and it worked flawless. I started the process about midnight...took less than an hour of fiddling around in total...this morning, the transfer is complete and safely in namecheap's hands ;) The reason I want people to read Jeff's article is because a year ago I did about 35 xfers from godaddy and it was not as easy as it is today. Now, I would almost call the process "painless".
oozcitak 15y ago
Don't skip (as I did) steps 15-19. Otherwise, you'll wait a week before GoDaddy releases the domain to your new registrar. When you manually accept the transfer as described in the blog post, the process should complete in a few hours.

karlzt 15y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097

wccrawford 15y ago

Make sure you have your DNS entries written down BEFORE you start the transfer. I didn't. It was a pain to recreate it from memory. GoDaddy deletes it immediately.

joejohnson 15y ago
Ok, thank you.

freejack 15y ago

Shameless Plug: Here's a complete tutorial for moving to Hover - https://www.hover.com/help/godaddy-complete-transfer-preparation-process https://www.hover.com/help/godaddy-complete-transfer-prepara... Let me know if we can help with anything.