How to transfer my domain and unlock it?

Posted on June 11, 2022
DNS
Asked by SleepingCeruleanUrchin

How to transfer my domain and unlock it? I’m using GoDaddy as my domain provider.

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• August 16, 2022

Hello,

DigitalOcean is not a domain name provider, so you can’t transfer your domain name to us.

However, what you could do is keep using GoDaddy as your domain provider, and change your nameservers to the DigitalOcean ones so that DigitalOcean could be your DNS provider as described in the documentation here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/

The DigitalOcean nameservers are: