question Transferring a domain used as a nameserver

[maksimfa]

Okay, question for you guys, I want to transfer a domain from name.com to godaddy, let's say xyz.com that is registered at name.com to be used to host its nameservers, ie ns1.xyz.com, ns2.xyz.com

If I transfer that to Godaddy, will those registrations also transfer over at the same time or will there be an outage while the domain transfers over and I then have to register the namerservers at godaddy?

anyone have this experience or a workaround?

I have a server with a number of sites using those nameservers.

 

[Michael M]

You will need to make sure to setup the DNS records for "xyz.com" at Godaddy - and your other sites using this as a name server will experience very little outage while transferring the domain.

Godaddy may inherit your Nameserver settings from Name.com - but it will not inherit the records in the zone. Meaning make sure to set your nameservers to Godaddy (by choosing standard) and then make sure to setup the A records for ns1 and ns2.

A workaround is to setup "off site DNS" for this domain before transferring and it will inherit these settings when the domain is transferred in. Should be no downtime this way.

I just did a quick search and found a link for you: https://www.godaddy.com/help/manage-off-site-dns-4041

 

[Michael M]

FYI: I believe you will need to setup the "Hostnames" section under that domain before you will be able to use it as a nameserver for any other domain at Godaddy.

Here you will just point ns1 and ns2 to the right IP address.

Don't forget the A records under the zone file.

Best of luck!