Thanks again for your help.

take care…

I’ve transferred domains from Godaddy and a few other domain registrars to new buyers.

The most important thing is to check your registrar’s policies before trying to sell. Some will tell you they won’t transfer it away if it’s within 60 days from the start of the registration or 60 days (or some other period) from the end of the current registration. They each also have their own procedures. Here are the basics though (should be pretty easy on your end no matter where they’re registered):

1. Unlock your domain from your domain admin.

2. Get the authorization code for your domain (somtimes you can find it in your domain admin area, and sometimes you have to contact the host for it).

3. Give that authorization code to the new owner if they want to move it to another registrar of their choosing – the transfer initiation is generally done by them through the new registrar once you’ve unlocked it and given them the code.

If they don’t want to move to a new registrar you can often do a free “push.” For example, I do this periodically for Godaddy (when I have the domain registered with them, and someone wants it pushed to their own Godaddy account).

Again, each registrar has their own procedure (some call it account ownership changes, some pushing, some importing). In some cases, the other person will initiate the import into their own account. For Godaddy, you would go into your domain admin and enter the new owner info (name, email, address, phone, etc. which you would get from the buyer), and simply confirm it. Then it’s in the buyer’s hands to finish the account transfer.

Hope that helps – I know it can be confusing. The best thing to do is to see what the specific registrar says in their support materials about transferring out.

Thanks for your quick response.

I’m confused. When you transfer the files over to the new owner, how do they then own the domain name?

I don’t include hosting when I flip a website or blog. I set them up on an account with some of my other sites, so all I do is backup the database and any site files, which I then transfer to the buyer. So I don’t have to deal with any host issues that way.

Thanks for writing this post. Really.

The idea of flipping sites really does suit my nature as I have so many ideas and I often don’t see them through. So starting them off, then letting them go for someone else to nurture it suits me to the ground.

I have one blog that I’d like to sell in the near future, but my problem is that I don’t know how to transfer ownership. I’m with Bluehost. I heard that it’s much easier to transfer a site on GoDaddy. How easy did you find doing the whole transfer thing?

take care…