“How much of a painful, tedious process am I in the mood for?”

This is what you need to ask yourself when thinking of doing this!

I am managing a portfolio of roughly 2000 domains for a client (sales & some assistance in development), that is also wanting them all moved into their godaddy account as they are come up for renewal.  During the process of setting up the instructions for another guy on the team to process, the following are the ‘must know’ issues I had to jot down.

In order to transfer your domain from one registrar:

1) You must ‘unlock’ the domain at it’s current registrar.

2) You must ensure that any whois privacy is turned off.

and

3) It must have been possessed within the current registrar for 60 days or more.

Now, for moving them to godaddy you’ll simply move through the transfer actions that are easily found on the front page.  After that, an email will come to the “Admin contact” of your domain.  In this email you’ll receive two pieces of information that you’ll need to take with you inside of the manage domains panel in godaddy.

Another thing you must do, is make sure your Admin Contact email is reachable.  We have some issues as most of this portfolio was picked up in auctions on the after market and thus the Admin Contact email is admin@snapnames.com.  This is problematic and has to be changed.

>>>> NOTE:  It’s vital to understand that if you change ANYTHING OTHER than the “Admin Contact” email, your current registrar will have to hold the domain for another 60 days before being able to release it.  Make sure that you ONLY change the Admin Contact email and none of the others.

One last thing — Don’t even bother trying to transfer domains to a new registrar if they are due to expire with in 2 week range, as the current registrar has 5-7 days to complete your request of release.  Give yourself time to track and followup on all the required actions to make this happen.

Hope you found this post useful.

type-atcha-later,

Sean

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