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What About AFTER You Sell That Blog? Is That Info Classified?

by esr
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I've just finished a couple of awesome courses on blog flipping, both purchased in the WSO forum, incidentally.

I've built my first blog to sell, customized it, SEO optimized, backlinks, etc. All ready to go.

However, after much searching, I cannot find any info on exactly what to do AFTER I sell it.

For instance, how do I transfer ownership of a domain? How do I give web hosting access to the buyer from my Hostgator account?

These are the types of things I need to know to be able to feel comfortable enough to put it up for sale.

Does anyone know of any source that offers this information?
#blog #classified #info #sell
  • Profile picture of the author ladyjane
    Transferring ownership of a domain is easy if you're both using GoDaddy. Just go into the domain's control panel and click "Account Change." You'll need the new owner's GoDaddy ID and the email they use with GoDaddy. Enter this information into the Account Change fields, check off the appropriate acknowledgment boxes, hit "Finish", and you're done. All the new owner has to do is pick up the domain on their end.

    I don't use reseller hosting (yet), so when I sell a blog, I zip up the blog's files, download them to my hard drive, and email them to the customer. The customer then uploads the files to their web host and unzips them. I'll eventually start using reseller hosting, but for now, that's how I do a transfer.
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  • Profile picture of the author ecdavis
    Transferring a domain is similarly easy with Namecheap, the registrar I use. In order to provide hosting, you may need to have reseller account with a hosting service such as hostgator, resellerzoom or any one of the inumerable services available. If you have a reseller account with Hostgator, you would need to consult with Hostgator staff or FAQ pages to better understand what you need to do to manage your clients' hosting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
    It's ages since I put a site up for sale, and it's 5.00am here and I should have gone to bed hours ago, but my foggy brain remembers the procedure like so...

    • Ask the buyer for his/her GoDaddy account number and email. I vaguely remember GoDaddy asking for a phone number at one point too. You'll also need their DNS info if you're moving a site over to their hosting.
    • Go to GoDaddy and change the DNS info for the domain. Then, click on the 'transfer' link, which I think is at the top of the same form somewhere, and enter the buyer's contact details. GoDaddy will email the buyer for confirmation of their part in the deal. Meanwhile...
    • Go to the site's cpanel and export the database into a folder on your hard drive
    • Create another folder within that folder and download the entire site into it via FTP. At this point you can either drum your fingernails impatiently on the desk while cursing your decision to include all those plugins, or you can go and get a beer.
    • Delete the config file from those you've just downloaded
    • Install a fresh WordPress on your buyer's server
    • Upload the site files over the top of it. Stop eyeing up the next beer
    • While the site files are uploading, go back to cpanel and drop the tables from the database of the fresh WordPress installation. Browse your hard drive to import the site database tables.
    I've probably explained it badly, but in most cases that's it, although a few plugin settings may be lost in transit sometimes and need configuring again. Put any 'How To' instructions or other info in the folder next to the database and site files, then zip it up for your buyer. It sounds convoluted, but probably takes less than fifteen minutes from start to finish. Twenty if you include the time taken to drink the second beer when you're done

    I was actually thinking earlier of listing something on SitePoint again, but when I went over to look at the place, everything seemed to be either red hot, blazin' or smokin'. I think I'll have another look tomorrow (today. Eek) when the fire department have been and gone
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  • Profile picture of the author esr
    Thanks guys. I'll definitely be using Warrior PDF on this one.

    Thanks again.
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