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

by George Wright
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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
#account #change #domain #hosted
  • Profile picture of the author Voasi
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author The Pension Guy
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bart Loos
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    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
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    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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  • Profile picture of the author The Pension Guy
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Snively
    Have you tried assigning your new domain name -> hosted content? I have done this several times with my shared hosting.
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    • Profile picture of the author The Pension Guy
      Originally Posted by Steve Snively View Post

      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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