Domain Names

This commodity will advise you how to alteration a Google registered domain to GoDaddy. I begin it acutely arresting that there are no adapted instructions out there about how to alteration a domain you registered with Google (most acceptable aback you active up for a Blogger account) over to addition Registrar. This action takes a few accomplish and will added than acceptable booty you a brace canicule to finish, but break with me and we’ll get through it together.

The aboriginal affair you will charge to do is accept an annual at a agent area you appetite your Google domain to be transferred to. I’ve been application GoDaddy.com forever, and I’ve never had any issues with them, so if I can awful acclaim them for your domain registering needs. Normally it alone Costs .00 to alteration a domain name, and you get an added year of allotment for free.

Domain Names

Now that you accept your annual set up there, log in and go to the top “Domains” dropdown tab and baddest “Transfer Domains to GoDaddy”. Type the domain name you ambition to alteration from Google in the box and baddest “Go”. If the domain name is accessible for transfer, bang “Proceed to Checkout”. Continue through the checkout action and pay for the transfer. You will accept several emails from GD, one of which will accommodate alteration codes for your domain, so don’t debris these!

In the abutting step, you accept to get into it with the nice association over at Google. aback you buy a domain name through the big “G”, your domain name is absolutely actuality hosted by Enom.com or GoDaddy.com (Yeah, go figure), but for some acumen it’s acutely difficult to get admission to your own domain name.

Proceed to the Google Apps folio here…google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Click on “Returning User assurance In” in the high right. access the domain name that we’re aggravating to alteration and bang GO. This should log you into your domain administration ascendancy panel. If you are asked to log in again, aloof log in with your domain username and countersign (Hopefully you bethink this).

Click on the “Manage this Domain” argument in the high right. On this page, bang on “Domain Names” in the high larboard area of the page. Doesn’t it assume like we’ve clicked “domain names” about a thousand times already?

Finally…you are now attractive at the domain settings for your Google domain. In the Primary Domain section, see the articulation for Advanced DNS settings..Click that. You will now see the following:

To change Advanced DNS settings, assurance in to your DNS animate with the afterward information:

Domain: domainX.com Password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx eNom chump annual email: GoogleClients@enom.com or GoogleClients@godaddy.com

Write this countersign down, because you’re activity to charge it aback you email Google for your “Authorization Code”. Send an email to the abode you see on the awning above, it could be either of those addresses shown. Tell them you are the buyer of http: //www. xyzYourDomain.com and you charge the allotment cipher to alteration your domain to a new registrar. Write in the countersign appearance aloft also. This will be all they charge to alleviate your domain, and email the alteration cipher to you. It may booty a few hours to a day to get the email.

Once you do, archetype the allotment cipher and go aback into your GoDaddy.com annual and go to the “My Domains” tab area you can administer your domain names. In the high left, you will see addition 4 tabs that apprehend “Domain Names” | “Buy/Sell” | “Tools” | “Help”. Roll over the “Domain Names” tab and baddest “Pending Transfers” from the dropdown list. You should now see the domain name you are aggravating to transfer. bang the checkbox abutting to the domain name and on the larboard allocation of the folio you will see an “Authorization” button. Roll over Authorize and baddest “Begin alteration Authorization”. Find that email GoDaddy beatific you before, which contains a alteration ID & Security cipher and access those numbers into the adapted boxes which should now be showing. bang “Next” and baddest that it is ok to transfer. Now access the angelic Google allotment you were emailed. You should now be seeing a bulletin that says “Accept alteration at Current Registrar”. That’s it, it’s now out of your hands. Hopefully aural the abutting 1-5 days, addition over at Google domains will columnist the button to agree the alteration into your GoDaddy.com account. Once it’s been transferred, it will appearance in your “My Domains” area of your account, and you’re chargeless to change DNS NameServers, advanced it, or any of the added features.

Now doesn’t it feel acceptable to be chargeless and accept ascendancy over your own domains? acceptable luck with your websites.

How to Transfer a Domain Name Registered With Google to a GoDaddy Account

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