Sorry, the old domain manager is gone. Here are some tips for using the new domain manager.
GoDaddy customers have had access to the company’s “new” domain manager for quite some time now. But this past week the company removed access to its old account manager, forcing customers to use the latest dashboard.
So customers that still relied on the old view are now stuck using the new one. Like anything, change is hard. Here are a few tips to make it easier to manage your domains with the new dashboard.
Bulk search
Much like the old interface, the new interface lets you pull up multiple domain names at a time to perform tasks on them. The way you select the domains is very different in the new one, however.
To bulk search your portfolio, paste a list of domains in the search bar. Either leave one space between each domain or paste a text list of domains, one per line. This will show the selected domains only. Note: do not put commas between domains.
Edit columns
Each domain is listed with pertinent data. You can select which columns you want to view by clicking on “Edit Columns”. One nice option here is “create date,” which shows when the domain was first registered based on Whois.
Other helpful columns include nameservers (quickly see if a domain is pointing to the wrong place), ownership date (shows when you acquired the domain) and renewal price (especially handy if you own a lot of different TLDs).
Filter
The filter option located to the right of Edit Columns lets you limit your list of domains based on certain parameters. A good example is to find only domains expiring in the next month. While you can sort your domains by expiration date, filtering makes it easier to view only the domains you need to review.
Contact changes tip
One frustrating thing with the new domain manager is how you accept internal transfers. If someone transfers ten domains from their GoDaddy account to yours, the system asks you to change your contact details one domain at a time rather than applying one change to all domains.
There is a workaround to this, however. Rather than changing the contact details when you accept the domains, go ahead and accept all of the domains as is. Once they are in your account, do a bulk update to change the ownership information for all of the domains at once.
DJ says
I think they took a step backwards. Did they acquire Name.com and I missed the PR? Full of error messages and bugs.
Call the exterminator ASAP.
Mike says
Horrible, the old one was much more simpler, and less buggy, what a nightmare. Also took us 3 days to get a simple push right thru that platform. Will be transferring domains away from Godaddy until they fix their platform.
Brad says
I don’t understand why they would release something that is worse. I have been having problems with the new system and it makes managing my 700 domains much more difficult.
Andrew Rice says
One upside of the new interface is that you can now list your names with Afternic from the GoDaddy backend.
Brad says
You could do this before, I’ve been doing it for at least a year if not longer.
Andrew Allemann says
That’s because you’ve been using the new domain manager already.
JZ says
I don’t see any improvement only things inside ro be able to do but either cant or involve more steps to do so..
Henry says
If it does not function better, faster and more intuitive than it is replacing, what is the point?
Sometimes it seem some companies change a working program or platform just for the sake of it. This seems to be one of them. If they are trying to add more functionality, why not make it seamless and unencumbered?
accent says
Their coders are full-time, they have to stay busy. If nothing is broken then break something.
Godaddy took 5 minutes to load my domains before – usually changes push that time into “never” for a month or two.
teri says
For me, it has made managing my domains more difficult and time consuming as well. The export of whois searches is gone. I have no ability to search by “starts with” or “contains” and an extension. No refresh button. So if I make a change to dns I need to start from the beginning to see if the change actually was made and made correctly.
Tim D says
Easier to list on Afternic is a big improvement.
Gary Dell says
I’m sorry if this was mentioned and i missed it, but is there anyway to check whois inquiries?
Andrew Allemann says
I inquired and this feature was temporarily removed but should be back soon.
Rob says
This could have been a very short article. “Use someone other than GoDaddy. The end.”
Website Islands says
I have a client gave me delegate access, while I can see the domains listed once I click DNS or manage it takes me to this new interface which even after using search I get not results (he has 43 domains) cant do a simple nameserver update for him , frustrating.