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Digital ocean does not ‘give registrar domains for free’ as the documentation lead me to believe, rather, you use another registrar as mentioned here (e.g namecheap or any other)
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/getting-started/dns-registrars/
so in my case “yes” I did need to turn off “transfer lock” on AWS Route 53 and then on the checkout page of another registrar (e.g namecheap) I entered the code that AWS Route 53 provided there (not on Digital Ocean).
I was then able to transfer domains registry from AWS Route 53 to another registrar (NOT Digital Ocean, because Digital Ocean has no power to register domains)
So the only thing left will be to update the ns-* data on the external registrars website once the transfer completes.
Digital ocean does not ‘give registrar domains for free’ as the documentation lead me to believe, rather, you use another registrar as mentioned here (e.g namecheap or any other)
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/getting-started/dns-registrars/
so in my case “yes” I did need to turn off “transfer lock” on AWS Route 53 and then on the checkout page of another registrar (e.g namecheap) I entered the code that AWS Route 53 provided there (not on Digital Ocean).
I was then able to transfer domains registry from AWS Route 53 to another registrar (NOT Digital Ocean, because Digital Ocean has no power to register domains)
So the only thing left will be to update the ns-* data on the external registrars website once the transfer completes.
Heya, @khanman
DigitalOcean is not a domain name provider, but you can manage your domain name’s DNS records with DigitalOcean, as stated in the article you’ve shared:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/getting-started/dns-registrars/
Regards