Godaddy offers a system called Total DNS Control that makes it very easy to change DNS settings of domains bought at Godaddy. I use it mainly to redirect the domain name to the correct server using Godaddy’s nameservers. It worked fluently for several years until I recently ran into a problem.

Whenever I tried to change the DNS setttings I received the message: The Total DNS Control Manager for this domain is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later. which was worrying me. It took me two days to figure out why this was happening all the time. First I thought it was a problem at Godaddy and that waiting would solve it.

It did not change for two days and I decided to look at other possibilities. I realized quickly that it was related to cookies. I use a deny all cookies unless I have permitted them explicitly extension in Firefox. What I did not realize in the beginning was the fact that Godaddy redirected the request from their own domain to a secureserver.net domain. And cookies were not permitted for that second domain.

I quickly added that domain to the list of permitted websites and was able to edit the DNS entries in Total DNS Controls from then on again.