Selling my primary GoDaddy domain. Recommendations on how not to not break things?

Question

My father and I are selling our family business and with it, our domain name. We are not selling the website or the hosting itself.

The domain and is registered AND hosted on GoDaddy, with one subdomain and a number of other domains hosted under that account.

We are only selling/tranferring the primary domain.

In addition, we have a secondary domain name which is currently redirected to the primary.

What I'd like to do is:

• Unlock Mopedepot.com so it is ready to transfer. I have done this.
• Get the transfer key ready. I believe I have this too
• Get anything else ready that might be needed. (Unknown)
• Transfer the domain without breaking any of the existing sub sites I have
• Set up 50cccycle.com as my primary domain
• For a time, have email send to mopedepot.com sent to both domains until all of the incoming email stuff has been updated.

Any suggestions or gotchas I should be aware of?

Answer 1

1) Make sure that the ID protection/Private registration has been turned off for the domain name before you initiate the transfer.

2) The EPP code or the transfer auth code can be obtained from your domain control panel or Godaddy.

3) You can get the primary domain name changed to 50cccycle.com from your hosting provider. If you have access to the hosting panel, you can make the changes yourself or else you will have to contact your hosting provider.

4) Are you using Linux/Windows/Java hosting?