Changing domain name.

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  mariabrown0723 · Member · Mar 3, 2022 at 2:36 am

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  Hello, i purchased a domain through namecheap.com, which led me eventually to word press for hosting. However I since then have come up with a new domain to register, and I wanted to know If there was a way to change that directly through wordpress?

  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

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  stevenlinx · Member · Mar 3, 2022 at 3:43 am

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  Hi there,

  To make your new domain work on WP.com, you’ll need to do the following:

  1.) On NameCheap.com, make the domain name server records point to WordPress.com.
  (your domain registrar, in your case NameCheap.com, should have instructions for doing this or you can contact their support)
  https://wordpress.com/support/move-domain/change-name-servers/#changing-name-servers-to-point-to-wordpress-com

  2.) On WordPress.com, set the primary site address to the domain you want under Settings -> General
  https://wordpress.com/support/domains/#set-a-primary-address

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Mar 3, 2022 at 8:47 am

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  Hi there!

  Before you actually change the nameservers, you’d need to first connect the domain to your WordPress.com site:

  https://wordpress.com/support/domains/connect-existing-domain/.

  Please note that you will need one of our paid plans to do that. You can read more about our plans here:

  https://wordpress.com/pricing/.

  Let me know if you have any more questions regarding that.