How to change Username and / or Password in
Godaddy Domain register
I have a Godaddy account for already 4 years or so and with time I
tend to login and use Godaddy to set DNS records or buy a new
domain way more often if compared to the old days.
By default GoDaddy creates numeric accounts names (Customer Number
as they call it), example:
Godaddy username: 1424915
Godaddy password: myVerySecretRandomPassword123
Being in necessity to often login to godady it started getting more
and more annoying with every single day as it is pretty hard for me
to memorize the not so intuitive
1424915, therefore
everytime I had to login to Godaddy, I had to check in my notes
again and again what is my
Username
This costs me a lot of time, so finally in a quick chat with a
friend today, he mentioned about having the same issue and
explained he just recently changed his (Customer Number) numeric
Username to a easy to remember login text string.
I know that changing the Username from an ID to a word in GoDaddy
is possible for a long time and I even did it before for one
Godaddy Account owned by a company. However just until today, I did
not changed my GoDaddy Account number to intuitive text phrase for
the simple reason I did not have time to check,
how changing the
account username and password in Godaddy could be done
Anyways today this friends small chat, triggered me to take few
seconds and check in Godaddy's website navigation on
how
changing the ugly number ID to a shiny username was possible.
This is how this little article got born :)
So enough jibberish, here is
how I changed my Customer Number
username to a desired easy to memorize:
1. Login to Godaddy with your Customer Number
2. Navigate to My Account -> Update Security
Settings
My Account -> Update Security Settings
Fill in properly all the input (red start) fields seen on the
screenshot and click
Save Changes . Once you see a message
settings are Saved. It is generally a good idea to open some
different kind of browser and try logging in with the new set
username and password.
Update Security Settings is also the place for people who
would like to
change Godaddy account password.
Be 100% sure to
check the new username/password pair in
another browser (without logging out with the one you just use) or
you will end up unable to login to your godaddy account
!!!
Its also a good idea in any case to, have written down somewhere on
paper
Godaddy's Call-in-PIN, this is just a precaution to
assure yourself that you will be able to restore your account
username/password in case if lost.
If you haven't used the
Call In PIN, I hope you will never
need to. Anyways just as a matter of info this PIN can help you in
some cases where you have to identify yourself as the owner of your
Godaddy account (Something like the Debit / Credit cards CVV code
[positioned on the card back] ). I've only used the Call in PIN in
few occasions by Godaddy's tech support, where I contacted them
directly by email to ask some specific questions on how to do stuff
inside my account.
I know this article, will be boring for some of my readers, so if
this is the case please accept my humble apologies ... anyways it
will help me orient myself in the future if I forgot how I did it
and hopefully will be useful to someone else