Archive for June 7th, 2010

How to enable Godaddy Total DNS for a recent transferred domain to Godaddy from another registrar / Solve Godaddy “Total DNS (Not Hosted Here)”

Monday, June 7th, 2010

I’ve recently transferred a domain from servage.net to Godaddy. As usual when I had to deal with a tech supports they were lazy and unhelpful. I had to first request an authorization code for the transferred domain. Since some of the WHOIS domain information set for the transferred domain included the domains@servage.net email I have to contact servage for the authorization code. Servage’s tech support first tried to convince me it is not possible to provide me such a code because I have to receive it on my mail specified in the administrative data for the transferred domain, ofcourse that was a light lie. And it was necessary to contact them once again and request to send me the auth info for the domain the day after I received the domain and was able to complete the domain transfer. Anyways since I wanted to switch from Servage’s web DNS manager and use Godaddy’s total DNS control it was necessery that I enable Godaddy’s Total DNS which was disabled for some reason with a message Total DNS (Not Hosted Here)
Luckily the solution is really simple and the whole issue is well documented on here

In short to solve the issue all necessery I have to do was simply:

1. Under Nameservers, click the “Manage” link.

2 You will see that the “I host my domains with another provider” radio button is checked.
You will need to, instead, click on “I want to park my domain” and then click OK.

Now wait few minutes and then Total DNS Control will appear as a mean of domain management.
By the way it’s maybe worthy to mention that Servage’s web DNS doesn’t support the “TXT” DNS records, neither they allow a custom created SPF TXT records this is really ridiculous for a large scale domain registrar and hosting company ..