Title: changing url
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# changing url

 *  [thecookingvirgin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecookingvirgin/)
 * (@thecookingvirgin)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-20/)
 * hi! I have had a wordpress.org site for about a year. i’m not loving the site
   name I chose and wondering how I would go about keeping my same site, all my 
   posts/pluging/etc, but changing my name. how do I buy a new URL and then transfer
   my existing site over to it? I would love to keep the old url for a while just
   in case people still type that in, they could still be redirected to the new 
   site. any ideas?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-20/#post-4184607)
 * > how do I buy a new URL
 * You need to contact your hosts and/or existing domain name registrars to arrange
   this. It should be possible to register a new domain name, point it to the existing
   site, change the urls in WordPress and the finally “park” the old domain name
   so that it simply points to the new domain name.
 * All in all, the initial process should take about 3 days to complete – from domain
   name registration to the new name pointing at the existing site. Once you have
   confirmed that this is working,see [Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
   for details of how to change the WordPress urls correctly. Then you can ask your
   hosts/registrars to park the old domain name.

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 * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/)

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-20/#post-4184607)
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