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Here's a list of the most frequented Help articles about domains. Use it as your guide — from registering your domain to changing its DNS zone files.

Discover domains

Watch domains videos, register a domain, and learn the difference between a domain and a website (Back to top)

• Get started with Domains
• Registering Domain Names
• What's the difference between a domain and a website?
• How to use your domain to create an email account

Essential tasks

Unlock or cancel a domain, change contact info, or recover and renew expired domains (Back to top)

• Unlock my domain
• Change domain contact information
• Update contact information for domains with privacy
• Renewing my expired domain name
• Recovering expired domain names
• Cancel my domain

Renewals

Keep domains up to date by renewing automatically or manually, or cancel auto renewal (Back to top)

• Renew my domain
• Domain renewal cost

Privacy and Protection

Safeguard your domain with Privacy and Protection (Back to top)

• Add Private Registration
• Cancel Private Registration
• What is Protected Registration?
• Add Protected Registration
• Cancel Protected Registration

Transfers

Take control of your domain by transferring to or away (Back to top)

• Transfer my domain to GoDaddy
• Get a domain transfer code to transfer my domain to GoDaddy
• Transfer domain to another registrar
• Get an authorization code to transfer my domain to another registrar
• How do I resend the transfer confirmation email?
• Check the status of my domain transfer-in

Move a domain to another account

Move a domain from one account to another, or change account owners (Back to top)

• Move a domain to another GoDaddy account
• Accept a domain name account change
• Decline a domain account change

Parking, Forwarding, and Subdomains

Park your domain until you use it, or maximize by forwarding to another site or creating a subdomain (Back to top)

• Park a domain registered with GoDaddy
• Forward a domain
• Manually forwarding or masking your domain or subdomain
• Connect my domain to WordPress
• Add a subdomain

Nameservers and DNS

Customize your domain with more technical control (Back to top)

• What is DNS?
• Manage DNS zone files
• Change nameservers for my domains
• Find my GoDaddy nameservers