Buying a domain and changing its name

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by hjsoucy, Feb 9, 2010.

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    I am considering buying a domain and changing the name. Is that very hard to do?
     
    hjsoucy, Feb 9, 2010 IP
  2. inspiroHost

    inspiroHost Peon

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    Not exactly sure what you're trying to do: changing the name of the website is of course possible (but ideally it should be relevant to the domain name), changing the domain name is not.
     
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  3. Vinsar

    Vinsar Active Member

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    So you want to buy say abc.com and then want to change it to xyz.com. If that is the case, answer is no you can't.

    But if you have purchased hosting for abc.com but want to change the hosted domain to xyz.com, yes you can do that, but you will need your hosting providers help.
     
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  4. moronic_kaos

    moronic_kaos Well-Known Member

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    #4
    just buy the website and the new domain and connect the two together. It isn't that hard...
     
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  5. Aquarezz

    Aquarezz Notable Member

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    Exactly. Put a 301 redirect in place though, to make sure Google isn't spotting you as a duplicate content creator and kicks your website out of the search results ;)
     
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  6. moronic_kaos

    moronic_kaos Well-Known Member

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    Ditto. And you wont loose any current visitors/links to the previous domain.
     
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    you can't change domain name mate.. :)
     
    nicholas.47, Feb 13, 2010 IP
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    silent_1 Well-Known Member

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    Changing domain name or redirecting it to some other are two different things. You can't change domain name once you would purchase it but you can redirect it to some other domain anytime. BTW why do you need to change it?
     
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  9. Mystique

    Mystique Well-Known Member

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    Change domain name?

    Not sure what the OP meant by that, but if he bought ugly.com and wants to change it for beuty.com some registrars offer a period of grace to make change or mispelling correction, usually 7 days, but not all registrars allow to do so and who knows if the wanted name is available :rolleyes:
     
    Mystique, Feb 13, 2010 IP