This article will teach you how you can transfer a Google registered domain to GoDaddy. I discovered it extremely frustrating that there are no decent instructions available about how to transfer a domain you registered with Google (probably when you signed up for a Blogger account) over to another Registrar. This process takes a few steps and can most likely require a couple days to finish, but stay with me and we’ll get through it together.
The very first thing you will need to do is come with an account at a registrar where you want your Google domain to become transferred to. I’ve been using GoDaddy.com forever, and I’ve never had any difficulties with them, therefore if I can highly recommend them for the domain registering needs. Normally it only costs $7.00 to transfer a domain name, and you have an additional year of registration free of charge.
Now that you’ve got your bank account set up there, log in and visit the top “Domains” dropdown tab and choose “Transfer Domains to GoDaddy”. Type the website name you intend to transfer from Google in the box and select “Go”. If the website name can be obtained for transfer, click “Proceed to Checkout”. Continue with the checkout process and purchase the transfer. You’ll receive several emails from GD, one of which will contain transfer codes for your domain, so don’t trash these!
Within the next step, you need to enter it using the nice folks over at Google. Whenever you purchase a website name through the big “G”, your domain name is actually being hosted by Enom.com or GoDaddy.com (Yeah, go figure), however for some reason it’s extremely hard to get access to your own domain name.
Proceed to the Google Apps page here…google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html
Click “Returning User Sign In” in the upper right. Go into the website name that we’re attempting to transfer and click on GO. This should automatically log you into your domain management user interface. If you’re asked to sign in again, just log in with your domain username and password (Hopefully you remember this).
Click the “Manage this Domain” text within the upper right. In this article, click on “Domain Names” in the upper left section of the page. Doesn’t it seem like we’ve clicked “domain names” about a thousand times already?
Finally…you are now exploring the domain settings for your Google domain. However Domain section, see the link for Advanced DNS settings..Click that. You will now see the following: