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Understanding the Domain Manager

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Last Updated: January 24, 2012 11:05 AM

From the Domain Manager, you can manage all of your domain name's settings and features, such as domain name transfers, renewals, DNS options, and domain name add-ons. You navigate through domain name features using the tab menus in the header of the Domain Manager. The tab menus are:

Domains — To access lists of your domain names.

  • All My Domains — Displays a complete list of your registered domain names.
  • Domain Forwarding Status — Displays a complete list of your registered domain names and indicates whether they are forwarded or not.
  • Pending Transfers — Displays a list of pending transfers.
  • Pending Account Changes — Displays a list of domain names that are pending a move to another account.

Buy/Sell — To view features you purchased for your domain names.

  • Backorders and Monitoring — Displays a list of the domain names you are monitoring or placed on backorder.
  • Investor's Edge — Displays a list of expired domain names that are becoming available for public registration soon. If you're interested in one of the domain names, you can place it on backorder.
  • Go Daddy Auctions® — Displays a marketplace for buyers and sellers of domain names. Domain owners can auction off their domains and potential buyers can bid on them.
  • Domain Buy — Displays a list of the domain names you are attempting to acquire through Domain Buy Service.
  • Premium Listings — Displays a list of the domain names you are selling through Premium Listings.
  • Appraisals — Displays a list of domain names you have submitted for appraisal and the appraisal status for each one.

Tools — To modify your list display, manage DNS, and export lists of your domain names.

  • Customize All My Domains Grid — To customize the display of All My Domains.
  • Customize Backorders and Monitoring Grid — To customize the list of backordered and monitored domain names.
  • DNS Manager — To manage the DNS for your domain names registered with us and using our nameservers or registered elsewhere and hosted with us.
  • Off-site DNS — To manage the DNS for domain names registered or hosted elsewhere but using our nameservers.
  • Exportable Lists — To generate and export customized lists of your domain names.

Help — To access Help content.

To Access the Domain Manager

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Next to Domains, click Launch.

Click a domain name to see details about it: settings, features, lock status, and domain name contacts.