{"id":719,"date":"2013-04-20T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2013-04-20T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T13:29:12","slug":"moving-a-domain-to-a-new-registrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/moving-a-domain-to-a-new-registrar\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving a domain to a new registrar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I moved the &#8220;trilug.org&#8221; domain from GoDaddy to NameCheap. \u00a0Our renewal time was coming up. \u00a0And at the same time, we were discussing a new policy of inclusiveness and a code of proper conduct for the group. \u00a0I had long felt that GoDaddy&#8217;s branding was &#8220;tacky&#8221;, and did not really align with the direction that TriLUG was heading. \u00a0Really&#8230; GoDaddy Girls? \u00a0It wouldn&#8217;t be appropriate to hold our meetings at Hooters, and we feel the same way about the GoDaddy Girls.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never moved a domain from one registrar to another, it can be confusing. \u00a0There are several interlocking steps that have to be done in a certain order. \u00a0If you have a roadmap, it can take an hour or so. \u00a0If not, you can waste a day or more waiting for all of the steps to complete.<\/p>\n<p>This is the recipe that I have followed for several transfers.<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>GoDaddy<\/strong> to <strong>NameCheap<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GoDaddy:unlock domain<\/li>\n<li>GoDaddy: send EPP (authorization code) via email<\/li>\n<li>NameCheap: initiate transfer<\/li>\n<li>NameCheap: fill in EPP codes<\/li>\n<li>NameCheap: use coupon code &#8220;SWITCH2NC&#8221;, save $1\/domain<\/li>\n<li>NameCheap: submit transfer order, pay<\/li>\n<li>wait for email from NameCheap<\/li>\n<li>receive email from transfer-domain.com (for NameCheap)<\/li>\n<li>click on link, agree to the transfer<\/li>\n<li>wait for email from GoDaddy<\/li>\n<li>receive email from GaDaddy<\/li>\n<li>GoDaddy: pending transfers, accept or decline<\/li>\n<li>you&#8217;re done &#8211; wait for email confirmations<\/li>\n<li>email from GoDaddy, domain is transferred<\/li>\n<li>whois reports new registrar<\/li>\n<li>email from NameCheap, welcome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point, it&#8217;s a good idea to double-check that your DNS settings transferred correctly. \u00a0Mine always have.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that your transfer goes as smoothly as ours did.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I moved the &#8220;trilug.org&#8221; domain from GoDaddy to NameCheap. \u00a0Our renewal time was coming up. \u00a0And at the same time, we were discussing a new policy of inclusiveness and a code of proper conduct for the group. \u00a0I had long felt that GoDaddy&#8217;s branding was &#8220;tacky&#8221;, and did not really align with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}