Existing Business Website domain transfer with no down time?

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  rightpawdogtraining · Member · Nov 7, 2016 at 6:33 pm

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  I’m interested in purchasing your business plan and building a new website but I currently have a complete website already up and don’t want any down time. Can I first build a website here and then once it’s complete switch the existing domain to the new site?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Nov 9, 2016 at 2:40 am

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  Yes, you will just need to set up Domain Mapping (which is included with the Business plan):

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  However, any time you change the DNS/nameservers of a domain to point to a new webhost, it can take up to 72 hours for that information to be properly propagated across the internet. This is a unavoidable aspect of domains, I’m afraid.