Defederate account from Godaddy

First: I am asking the following questions about my business Microsoft tenant and not the one associated with the email address that I used to get access to this support topic.

Can someone from Microsoft please answer these key questions so as to minimize service disruptions when defederating my Microsoft365 tenant currently with GoDaddy?:

1. When in this process do I pay for tenant licensing/subscription with Microsoft?
2. How do I contact Microsoft to do so? Is there a link that connects me directly to make the purchase?
3. When do I submit DNS changes to my registrar to point to the Microsoft billed tenant?
4. Where can I get the new DNS specifications for the defederated tenant?

Question 1 Details:

I’ve read the GoDaddy instructions but I need to know, from Microsoft, when and what I should buy from them to minimize service disruption during the process? Do I buy an E3 license/subscription first, then go through GoDaddy’s process and somehow link that purchased license to the defederated tenant when complete, or must I wait until the process is complete, then contact Microsoft to get the license/subscription?

Question 2 Details:

In any case how would contact Microsoft to do the licensing/subscription purchase for the tenant? Is there a link somewhere?

Question 3 Details:

When do I submit DNS changes to my registrar, in this case also GoDaddy, to point my domain to this defederated tenant? Do I even need to submit changes?

Question 4 Details:

Where can I get the exact specifications for all DNS settings such as the MX record, etc., that must be set in order to get immediate access to the newly defederated tenant both as Administrator and public access?

Somewhat Off-Topic Warning:

For those starting this process, the following information about their behavior may be useful by elevating your attention to detail because GoDaddy has always taken every opportunity to retain the revenue by exploiting any ambiguity they can

The GoDaddy defederation instructions are carefully written to appear to be working in your interest, but are sufficiently obtuse as to create some fear that my tenant will be down for a period and I’ll struggle with making it available again at Microsoft. Or worse, it becomes permanently unavailable to me because I don’t have sufficient information to work with Microsoft after defederation.

If that were to happen once defederation has technically completed, I expect it would be nearly impossible to get support from GoDaddy. They’ll likely require some sort of subscription for Microsoft365 in order to access their support people and I’ll be put in an endless loop of being transferred from one offshore, tier 2 support agent, AI bot, and sales to another and it would be difficult or even not possible to get support without paying for it or buying a subscription. This is how GoDaddy has been and why I’m moving away from them, so I want to be prepared.

This is GoDaddy’s M.O…:

On this very tenant I will be moving, they repeatedly change the billing to be automatic after I explicitly disable it. It’s difficult to get support, carefully hiding the instructions to disable attributes, like the automatic billing and how to move away from GoDaddy, under a tangentially relevant topic. And, once you’re able to change billing to not be automatic, the button to save or discard that change is relatively difficult to find. Even more disingenuously, when you go to the page with that setting to verify, it will surreptitiously re-enable automatic billing on every product on that page, whether the product is visible or below the browser visible region so you need to carefully review all those settings even if you just have a look. The button to discard those automatic changes as difficult to find as the topics themselves.

I have disabled automatic billing multiple times only to find, that one of my saved payment methods has been charged for the subscription on the due date. Each time, when I am able to contact support, they feign surprise and claim it’s a one-time glitch from a maintenance update on their end.

As if that’s not despicable all by itself, to disable automatic billing, your only option is to cancel your subscription and let it expire on the due date with little explanation as to what happens at expiration, should you forget to pay on that day. Calling their support is just as duplicitous as the online forms. The agents, already struggling with English, won’t give you straight answer about what happens when you must “cancel.” When you ask them to disable automatic billing, they say that I must cancel and then go into a post-cancellation survey about why I’m cancelling. This, of course, meets the objective of creating FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) about cancellation for the sole reason of disabling automatic billing. Both times phone support telling me they must end the telephone call for it to take effect. I begrudgingly fell for that once, but on the second call, I escalated to supervisor where they reluctantly made the change and I was able to see it online on a summary page.

So, please forgive my reluctance that a GoDaddy led and allegedly documented process will go smoothly when they put considerable effort into designing a billing system that makes any negative change to your monthly service cost as difficult as they can.