Is it possible to change the domain name of a hosted account?

George Wright · 08-11-2009, 05:09 PM

Hi All,

Here is the problem.

I had a URL and it belonged to a site where I have a lot of information and products stored.

I let the URL expire and it's in redemption right now and I'm not going to pay $100 to get it out, it's not that serious.

In the mean time I would still like to make the content available to my members.

How can I simply assign one of my parked domains to it?

In others words www. oldsite . com = expired now I want www . new site.com to point to it.

It is an account on my resellers account so I have full control of the cPanel of both the reseller account and the account in question.

Thanks,

George Wright

Voasi · 08-11-2009, 05:13 PM

You need to go to you hosting account and change the nameservers for that account. If I understand what you want, that should be it.

Istvan Horvath · 08-11-2009, 05:17 PM

For which account?
Both domains are hosted on his reseller account - which means their DNS is/was already pointed to the reseller account's name servers.

It is about using the content that existed on the expired domain... on/with another domain.

I am looking at my VHM but I don't see anything like that.

Bart Loos · 08-11-2009, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by George Wright

Hi All,

Here is the problem.

I had a URL and it belonged to a site where I have a lot of information and products stored.

I let the URL expire and it's in redemption right now and I'm not going to pay $100 to get it out, it's not that serious.

In the mean time I would still like to make the content available to my members.

How can I simply assign one of my parked domains to it?

In others words www. oldsite . com = expired now I want www . new site.com to point to it.

It is an account on my resellers account so I have full control of the cPanel of both the reseller account and the account in question.

Thanks,

George Wright

I guess there are probably much better ways out there, but can't you copy the content into the new site's folder on the server? , if it has a bunch of internal links you're gonna have to redo them one by one I guess.

Cheers
Bart

George Wright · 08-11-2009, 05:36 PM

Hi All,

The pension Guy pretty much has a handle on what I want to do.

Of course I can download the public html and upload it to the new hosting account.

I'm just trying to figure out how to give an old hosting account a new URL/Domain Name.

Maybe I can just link to the IP/name. Hmmmm BRB

George Wright

Istvan Horvath · 08-11-2009, 05:58 PM

OK, took a closer look at my reseller accunt admin - VHM (VPS Optimized2)

If you have something similar, this might work... NO GUARANTEE!!!
Main > Account Functions > Modify an Account
then open the old account (expired domain) for modification and change the domain name, i.e. replace it with the new one.

To be honest, I didn't try it - so it might be a good idea to backup its content before messing with it

Steve Snively · 08-11-2009, 06:02 PM

Have you tried assigning your new domain name -> hosted content? I have done this several times with my shared hosting.

Istvan Horvath · 08-11-2009, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve Snively

Have you tried assigning your new domain name -> hosted content? I have done this several times with my shared hosting.

Can you, please, describe the technical details of this "assigning" process?
Thanks!

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George Wright You R GREAT if you are A War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Shakey/Sunny CA, USA. Posts: 6,762 Blog Entries: 31 Thanks: 2,920 Thanked 1,837 Times in 739 Posts	Re: Is it possible to change the domain name of a hosted account? Hi All, The pension Guy pretty much has a handle on what I want to do. Of course I can download the public html and upload it to the new hosting account. I'm just trying to figure out how to give an old hosting account a new URL/Domain Name. Maybe I can just link to the IP/name. Hmmmm BRB George Wright
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