Will I have to pay again? I have about 9 months left before renewal but my current provider doesn’t offer many options / control panels.
Update: thanks for everyone’s help – I’ve finally completed this now.
I had to:
- Ask my old registrar to ‘Unlock’ the domain
- Ask my old registrar to set the admin email address of the domain to my email
- Ask my old registrar for the ‘authcode’
- For the rest I just followed GoDaddy’s instructions
What a pain in the a**
This is how it works Lets say you have 9 more months for your current domain to expire you transfer the domain to GoDaddy (or to any other decent Registrar) you will be charged the price (little more or equal) to the price of booking a new domain BUT, you will have the domain for 9 months + one year (or the no. of years you paid godaddy for)
So, you choose to transfer the domain and pay USD9.99 (for a year), you will have the domains for 1 year + 9 months