GoDaddy Error: Domain name is used. Please select a new domain name.
I just purchased a new domain. Got everything transferred over into my goDaddy account, yet when I went into the Domain Management console to attach the domain to my Linux hosting account I got the error message, “Domain name is used. Please select a new domain name.” From looking at my account, everything had transferred over correctly from the seller. Upon contacting goDaddy support I discovered that the seller needed to remove the domain from their hosting account before I could add it to my own. You’d think that once the transfer had happened, it would automatically disassociate itself from the hosting account. Not so.
[UPDATE : 5/12/09] Evidently this is more common than I thought. Completely separate from this original post, I registered a dropped domain about a month ago through GoDaddy. I just got around to building it out today. When I went to set it up in the my hosting panel again I get our familiar error “Domain name is used. Please select a new domain name.” Upon talking to my account rep, if the previous owner of the domain hosted it on GoDaddy prior to its release this error will trigger same as them transferring it directly to you. I’ve never met this guy, but he’s basically holding this domain hostage until GoDaddy convinces him to release it. How does it not get automatically released on expiration? Makes no sense.
