Domain Name Search

I have also heard mixed reviews of GoDaddy, one of the biggest and most well-known companies in the Web hosting business (thanks muchly to their rather off-color Superbowl adverts). Whether you need to transfer a domain away ‘before you get into trouble with them’, however, I dunno, that seems a bit drastic, but since those of us that own a bunch of domains often do transfer things from one registrar to another, it’s useful to document how to do this with GoDaddy anyway…

As always, your first step is to log in to your GoDaddy account. Well, maybe your first step is to decide where you want to transfer the domain to, actually. For this example, I’ll be transferring one of my domains, filmbuzz.org (tied into @FilmBuzz on Twitter), from GoDaddy to Aplonis, my hosting admin company.

On the Aplonis site is the following requirement that pops up when you’re trying to arrange to have a domain transferred to their control:
aplonis domain transfer

As you can see, I need an “EPP” code. Generally, there’s an encrypted token that you need to get from the current registrar, give it to the new registrar, and then wait while the two compare token keys and, if they’re identical, arrange the actual transfer.

Now, back to GoDaddy!

On that site, you need to log in:
godaddy login

Once logged in you’ll see:
godaddy my domains

Click on the domain name and you’ll dig one level deeper into things:
godaddy filmbuzz org domain

Almost there. Now you need to click on “More Settings” and among the many things shown on the subsequent page are the following:
godaddy filmbuzz org domain detail

You want to click on “Authorization Code: Send by Email” to get the secret token that will allow you to transfer the domain away. Click on that and…
godaddy send domain transfer auth code

Okay, we can do that. Click on “OK” and a short while later you should get an email from GoDaddy a few hours later. Why it takes a few hours is beyond me, but when you get it, the transfer security token will look like this:
Authorization Info: 2784C809AE9493E

Enter that into the field indicated on the form of the registrar to which you want to transfer your domain, press submit, and the wheels should be set in motion to have the domain transferred from GoDaddy to your new registrar.

Good luck!