How to unlock a domain name for transfer
How To Move / Transfer A Domain Name To A New Host / Owner / Person / Or Account
In this video I'm in a show you how to transfer your domain name from one place to another
place it's a very easy process and him to show you in this video hi my name is Adam
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that I got that out of the way let's go through the process of transferring a domain name
actually some just asked me for help with this I thought to be a great topic for a video
show you where I have all my domain names registered and that's with a company called
name cheap now most people just use Go Daddy is the first one they think of all just go
to Go Daddy however I find that name cheap is just much better it's a little less expensive
but that's not why I use them I like their interface better and I just really know like
much that has to do with Go Daddy on a personal level but there definitely changing I think
name cheap is probably like the number two company to register and store your domain
name set and it's the one that I've always used when you first register a domain name
they also give you a domain privacy for free but you do have to pay to renew that if you
wanted to so because there are so many different places that you can have your domain name
registered this video I'm going to be mostly talking about how to do it in the concept
not actually showing you because I can show you for the 50 different companies that you
could have your domain name registered at and I'm in a show you how to transfer to name
cheap but the process is going to be pretty much the same for any place you want to transfer
your domain name to I like to keep my domain names that name cheap versus with a web hosting
that's just for being able to move around really easily so I'm a no show you how to
do it right now okay some unnamed James website and any place you want to transfer a domain
name to their and have a register your domain name option any transfer your domain name
option some go ahead and click on domains and then transfer right here and so all you
need to do in this scenario is go ahead and put in the domain name that you want to transfer
some to enter a domain name right now it's not my domain name it's someone who's I know
their domain name sums can go ahead and enter that now and show you what it says okay it's
digital age.com the guy that has this domain name and I know he's going to have something
on it that I want to demonstrate so there are a couple requirements before you can transfer
a domain name let me first refer over here to the documents for name cheap now I wanted
show you that I'm and explain it all right now but if you wanted specific instructions
for your specific situation I'm sure a quick Google search would definitely show that for
yourself here's the document is very wordy but I'm in explain it so before you this couple
steps for you can transfer right so the first thing you need to do is right here here's
a requirement the domain name you want to transfer can not have been registered under
60 days ago or transferred someplace else under 60 days ago so as long as you registered
your domain name over 60 days ago or you transferred somewhere over 60 days ago then you want to
transfer it someplace else you are in the clear the second one right here is the domain
name must not be locked so when you register a domain name like for instance with Go Daddy
they give you the option to lock it in that prevents any kind of changes happening on
the domain names you're have to go in and unlock it next let's take a look at the third
thing right here it says your domain must show a valid email address when you register
a domain name there's three contacts that are associated with it and one of them is
the admin contact and that's a name and email address and an address and there's an email
address there and so you need to be able to receive emails at that email address because
what happens in this process an email to verify things is going to go to that email address
and so what this means is if you have privacy enabled on your domain name Juergen it temporarily
have to disable that very that privacy feature that you might have purchased your NAFTA disable
that in your and I want to make sure that that email addresses in some dummy email address
you might've put and it's a real email address that's going to go to you so this is what
happens okay so here I am I I'm on name chief I put the domain name in and it's given me
some information so right now under it tells tells you where the domain names registered
at Go Daddy it tells you if it's a locked and right here it says it's unlocked so great
to for two were were doing pretty good admin email and it says unknown this is because
this domain name has the privacy turned on if it didn't have the privacy turned on it
will show you the email address on that record so because there is privacy on that domain
name it says unknown so you can come here and if you put your domain name and you'll
see all guys I gotta resolve this email address issue let me go ahead and put a different
domain name enema to put one in that is mine it is it's show the demo to click on transfer
and let's see what it shows me okay here we go it saying it is unlocked and right here
it's showing an admin email and this email address does go to me so this is an example
of a domain name that is all pretty much ready to go it's meeting these requirements it's
it's older than 60 days it's not doesn't have privacy turned on its unlocked I know I'm
good to go now let's go back to those instructions so this is really that first step of what
you need it's pretty simple basic stuff there okay so now what you need to do is where your
domain name currently is you need to get something called an EPP code or it might be referred
to as an authorization code so there you to give you this code in Juergen and need to
put that in for example where is it\'85 Right here you're gonna need to put that code in
right here so then what happens is when you get that authorization code you pasted in
here you can check out pay for the domain name and then an email is going to be sent
right here and what is going to do is that she is verifying that the email in the ownership
and all of that will be a link you click on it transfer is initiated and your domain name
will be transferred within maybe 30 minutes or maybe up to five days depending on where
it's coming from so it's coming from like a Go Daddy or a big company like that it will
be very very quick the transfer will happen so now the next question is probably well
how do I get that EPP code or how do I do some of the specific things so on this document
and as a matter fact I put a link to this in the video description when you scroll down
it has these associated articles and so remember I just said a moment ago just Google for specific
instructions based upon your where your name is registered and where you wanted a transfer
to well right here these results will end up coming up if any of those says name cheap
so for example here is specific instructions for Go Daddy specific intra-instructions for
name.com's let's go ahead and click and go daddy and when you scroll down to gives you
perfect images on how to unlock your domain name right here and then right here tells
you how to get your authorization code right here in a just walking you through and then
there's your authorization code looks like Go Daddy emails it to you you click send and
you'll get it that way and this is telling you how to turn off that privacy so for example
if you're transferring from Go Daddy to name cheap you've got it all here very simple to
follow with some images so it's just a really simple process number one you need to make
sure that the domain name privacy is off number two the administrative contact email actually
goes to you and you get your authorization code with that you can go and transfer your
domain name pretty much anywhere so obviously the the big variable is how do you turn off
the domain name privacy how do you get that authorization code and stuff like that and
so where I guarantee you where you have your domain name registered they have the support
they have support documents and they have support staff you can just send a message
Hank how do I get an authorization code for this domain name so it's very easy to get
the little bits of help that you might need now I have transferred domain names from very
random places and sometimes you have to get those codes from the support I've experienced
that before and they took a long time to actually provide that back and that's why like to keep
my domain names just that name cheap and once your domain names that name cheap you can
pointed to anywhere you want any Webhost you want so if you had it on one host and then
you want to switch to a different host you can easily change it because your domain names
there and you can just change the DNS settings that should be for totally different video
now the next question you might be thinking is will there be any downtime when I transfer
my domain name the answer is 99% percent likeliness that there won't be any downtime but you might
have these little offshoot fringe little tiny companies and they kind of get all screwy
and stuff like that so there is is the slightest possibility but 99% chance that you won't
have any downtime so I wouldn't really worry about that soap anyways this video is just
about how easy it is to transfer your domain names I also recommend and personally use
name cheap I'll have a link to this article I have a link to name cheap down below and
if you are looking for a different Webhost also provided some links down below to some
recommended Webhost that I have so that's it for this video if you had any questions
I didn't cover feel free to leave a comment in the comment section down below I'll definitely
love to answer it for you and help you out in any way that I can they wanted to share
with me down below as well what is your favorite place and to have your domain names registered
at and why well anyways thank you for watching this video
