How to enable Godaddy Total DNS for a recent
transferred domain to Godaddy from another registrar / Solve
Godaddy "Total DNS (Not Hosted Here)"
I've recently
transferred a domain from servage.net to
Godaddy. As usual when I had to deal with a tech supports they
were lazy and unhelpful. I had to first request an authorization
code for the transferred domain. Since some of the WHOIS domain
information set for the transferred domain included the
domains@servage.net email I have to contact servage for the
authorization code. Servage's tech support first tried to convince
me it is not possible to provide me such a code because I have to
receive it on my mail specified in the administrative data for the
transferred domain, ofcourse that was a light lie. And it was
necessary to contact them once again and request to send me the
auth info for the domain the day after I received the domain and
was able to complete the domain transfer. Anyways since I wanted to
switch from Servage's web DNS manager and use Godaddy's total DNS
control it was necessery that I enable
Godaddy's Total DNS
which was disabled for some reason with a message
Total DNS (Not
Hosted Here)
Luckily the solution is really simple and the whole issue is well
documented on
here
In short to solve the issue all necessery I have to do was
simply:
1. Under Nameservers, click the "Manage" link.
2 You will see that the "I host my domains with another
provider" radio button is checked.
You will need to, instead, click on "I want to park my domain" and
then click OK.
Now wait few minutes and then Total DNS Control will appear as a
mean of domain management.
By the way it's maybe worthy to mention that
Servage's web
DNS doesn't support the
"TXT" DNS records, neither they
allow a custom created
SPF TXT records this is really
ridiculous for a large scale domain registrar and hosting company
..