Title: Practical Domain Change Question
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Practical Domain Change Question

 *  [awrhodes84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awrhodes84/)
 * (@awrhodes84)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/practical-domain-change-question/)
 * Hi guys, I have read a ton of support articles on changing my wordpress domain,
   but none seem to answer my main question, so let me try to explain.
 * 1) I now own 2 domains from NameCheap (let’s call them currentdomain.com and 
   newdomain.com)
    2) My host is Hostgator, and my plan does NOTallow me to have
   multiple/addon domains. 3) My WordPress installation is currently on currentdomain.
   com
 * I want to move my WordPress install to newdomain.com, and re-purpose currentdomain.
   com for another venture. My fear is that when I switch my primary domain with
   Hostgator, I will either lose my WordPress install or not be able to navigate
   to my login site. Or am I not thinking about this correctly?
 * Is what I want to do even possible without add-on domain capability from HostGator?
   Basically its that lag time during the change that has me concerned.
 * In the alternative, is it possible to back up my WordPress site, change my domain,
   install WordPress on the new domain, and then load my backup into it? I don’t
   care about downtime in the least.
 * Thanks a lot in advance.
 * Andrew

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/practical-domain-change-question/#post-4007080)
 * Backup your entire site and store safely in your computer, delete the site from
   your server, reinstall WordPress with the new domain and then restore the site
   from backup. Make sure to change all URLs in your database before importing it
   into your new site.
 * BTW, if you are not sure about how to go about the move, try it on a local WordPress
   install on your computer or use a test site before deleting your current site.
 * Review:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup](http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup)

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/practical-domain-change-question/#post-4007080)
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