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It seems every time Facebook rolls out it’s game changing new features they force us to hate Facebook more and more as with every new feature they tries to capture as many as conversation of users, keep a record of it and later either make it public or use it for targeting us with their ads. They are just thinking of how much relevant data  they can store and use it for targeting us back with ads but they are just not caring how the user will feel cause they don’t even keep an option to turn off the feature or turn it back to older one.

One of such new feature which is taking nerves of people these days is new Facebook Messages although it was announced way back in November 2010 but they are rolling it out in different phases and recently they have rolled it out to almost 60-70% of the users or may be more cause I can see almost everyone in my friend circle has got it. As expected users hated it like anything for two main reason -

1. Your all chat conversation saves in your Message box (I also hate it) – As Chat is something which people like to keep it private as they share many secret and intimate talks which they can’t in normal emails or messages. Also it makes your message thread soooooooooo long and messy.

2. All the messages under single thread (Although I like it) – People wants to keep their different conversation topics under separate threads they don’t want to club all their conversation of different topics under same thread.

Check out some of the sentiments  -

I liked keeping certain threads of messages seperate by the subject! I HATE how chats end in my inbox. I use the chat for one thing and messages for another. So confusing. Since facebook texting doesn’t always work, I can’t tell if the ones in the messages were supposed to be from texting or chatting…good heavens give us the option to go back!!! - Anonymous

Every time facebook is modified it get worse. We are used to this. But now you have brought it to a new level of complexity and uselessness. Conversations split in 2000 nameless new ones and God only knows following which criteria, messages in the chat appearing in the mailbox while you are talking, the chat itself showing messages of ages ago where there aren’t recent ones and so on…  - Anonymous

Every time I open my fb account my blood boils bec of this stupid change. all my chats are saved and i don’t know which is which. it’s too many I don’t have time to delete all that’s why i end up in this thread looking for someways on how to return in the old way.   - Anonymous

So the question is How to Turn off or Stop Facebook chat going to messages?
1. Just Delete your Chat conversation – I tried almost everything but the only option so far I have found is that just going back to your message box and delete your chat conversations apart from that there is no other option to avoid this mess.

2. Use 3rd party Chat Apps - Other effective way is to use 3rd party chat app like [link] for chatting, which will helps to avoid sending your all chat conversations to your message box.
Here is solution from Facebook’s Official help center -

How do I access my chat history?
Your chat history with a friend is included as part of your complete conversation in Facebook Messages , along with your other messages, texts and emails.If you’re chatting with someone, your recent conversation history is available by scrolling up within the chat window. To clear this recent history, click the actions menu at the top right of the chat window and select Clear Window. Note: clearing your chat window does not delete these messages from your conversation history.

To permanently delete part or all of your conversation:

1. Select See Full Conversation from the actions menu at the top right of your chat window.
2. Select Delete Messages… from the actions menu at the top of the conversation.
3. Check the individual messages you’d like to delete and click Delete Selected at the bottom of the page, or click Delete All to delete the whole conversation.

Check the Video too [Link]

Initially I bought many domain names from Google apps as it is safe and easy but one problem is that you can not enjoy the evergreen discount coupons of Godaddy and it is less flexible also transferring from Google apps to Godaddy or new domain registrar is not very smooth and easy. So I thought of writing a blog post on it. As in our company TechShu we faced this problem many times and every time it takes a lot of time if solution is not documented, in TechShu we have a very unique habit of finding solution to our problems and writing blog post on that so that everyone will get benefited from training new team members to our clients to open world.

So here we go -

1. Buy Domain transfer service from Godaddy with Desired domain name to transfer.

2. Unable to transfer – You’ll receive email from “Important Contact Information Needed [khel...@domainsbyproxy.com] (FROM: tran...@godaddy.com)” which states that -

“In order to complete this transfer we must have the approval of the administrative contact for this domain name. However, the administrative email address obtained from your current registrar does not appear to be valid, or could not be obtained.”

3. Need Transaction ID and Security Code – In order to initiate the transfer, Godaddy needed to send you Transaction ID and Security Code that were provided by the gaining registrar. They were sent to the Administrative Contact listed on the domain when you purchased the transfer at Go Daddy (In simple terms they’ll be send to the email ID with which you have registered Google Apps domain name). If you did not receive this email as you are transferring your domain name from Google apps which provide who.is protection and Godaddy will be unable to find out the administrative contact email ID of your domain name.

4. Clear Private Registration Service -

You need to ensure that you have removed the Private Registration Service that Google apps provide for free associated with the domain and Cancel the Private Registration.

The private registration for your domain is managed through Domains By Proxy in case of domain names bought via Google Apps, You will need to log into your account with Domains By Proxy in order to cancel the privacy service.

• Go to domainsbyproxy.com and click on ‘My Account’.
• Log in to your Domains by Proxy account.

If you do not remember your Domains by Proxy login information, click on the ‘Forgot your password?’ link to retrieve your customer number and reset your password for that

Go to login> Click Forget Password> 1st retrieve your Customer ID and then Reset Password with the help of customer ID.

• Once logged in, click on ‘My Domains’.
• Check the box next to the domain(s) you wish to cancel private registration for.
• Click on ‘Continue’.
• Confirm that you wish to cancel the registration by selecting YES.
• Click the ‘Submit’ button.

You will then receive an email regarding the cancellation. The domain will no longer appear in your Domains by Proxy account, and the cancellation will not affect any other services on the domain such as DNS or email. Please remember that cancellation of the private registration is not refundable.

5) Unlock your domain name and get Authorization Code – Go to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YourDomainName.com/ > Domain Settings > Domain names > Advanced DNS settings > Click on Sign in to DNS console > Sign in with your given access credentials.

• Click on your desired domain name, Unlock your desired domain name.
• Go to Authorization Code: Send by Email section and click on send by email.
• You’ll received authorization code which you’ll be needing at later stage of transfer.

6) Reinitiate transfer Go to Godaddy> My Account> My domain> Transfer tab> Click on desired domain name and reinitiate transfer

7) Transaction ID and Security Code finally – You get a email with “Transfer of YourDomainName.com – Action Required” with Transaction ID and Security Code.

8 ) Authorization - Go to Godaddy> My Account> Domain manager> Domains> Pending transfers> Authorization> Type your Transaction ID and Security Code.

9) Accept Transfer – Go to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/ YourDomainName.com/ > Domain Settings > Domain names > Advanced DNS settings > Click on Sign in to DNS console > Sign in with given access credentials> Domains> Pending Transfer> Select desired domain name> Click Accept/Decline> Select Accept and Ok.

10) Hurray.. You are done with transfer.

SPECIAL NOTE : One more point to take care of, Go to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/ YourDomainName.com/ > Domain Settings > Domain names >

Uncheck “Automatically renew my domain registration every year” Or else you’ll be ended up paying every year to Google apps like once I did for my one domain name.

Please note that if you are approaching to your domain renewal period than you can not be able to uncheck if that is the case then you can turn off or uncheck the auto renew option once date of renewal is over.