Many people keep asking me on how to transfer their domain name which was registered through Godaddy.com to someone’s account in case they have sold it or given on lease. The answer for this would be that the new owner needs to create to have a account with godaddy.com or else they need to create one before they start the domain name transfer. The service is mostly free with most domain name registrars when the transfer is within the same registrar but if you are transfering to another registrar you need to pay a years registration fees as transfer charges.

If you are a Godaddy.com account holder then you have a option to freely transfer a domain name to another godaddy user, which is also called as a Push, since you are just pushing the domain name to someone else. In order to complete this transaction you need to login to your User Account at Godaddy.com and find the domain name listed under Domains > Management & Renewals > My Domains.

This window is called as the Domain Manager where all the domain names owned by you are listed in Alphabetical Order. Click on the Domain which you are willing to transfer to another Godaddy user, after which detailed information about the domain name will appear with a option in the top named as ‘Account Change’. Click on it and you will be asked with the following details in 4 steps.

First Step – Initiate Account Change
Under this step you will have to enter the new owners details.
New registrant’s Customer # or login name
New registrant’s email address
Domain’s contact information – Here you can keep your contact information or else the new owners details.

Once you enter all the information correctly, it will be validated and you will directly have to move to Step4 after which you will get a message of ‘Your changes have been submitted. Please allow a few minutes for the changes to take effect.’ and the other party will get a email regarding this domain name transfer.

Note : You need to make sure you have Unlocked the domain name before the transfer is proceeded, because if its Locked you wont be able to transfer it. Once the transfer is started you will find the Domain Status to be changed to ‘Changing Accounts’.

The new owner of the domain name would get a email with ‘Change of Registrant Pending’ information where he has to login to his Godaddy account and under the ‘My Account’ section, click on ‘Pending Account Changes’ > ‘Incoming Account Changes’ > Quick Accept > Accept Agreements. With this procedure they would see the domain name would be in their account with all the services attached to it.