Moving a domain from wordpress hosting to another hosting provider.

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  alankraft · Member · Sep 19, 2013 at 9:55 pm

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  I’m going to be upgrading my wordpress.com site (alankraft.me) to a wordpress.org install and I would like to move it to a new host. I already have a godaddy.com hosting account, and I would like to migrate the domain so that it is part of that account. Is there an easier process for this than simply waiting for my wordpress premium account to expire, along with the domain, and then registering the domain with my godaddy account? Is there a simpler way to transfer the domain ownership to my godaddy account?

  Also, does wordpress.com offer domain hosting without wordpress premium? I wouldn’t mind leaving my domain with wordpress.com, as long as I can do a wordpress.org install and have full ftp/hosting abilities. Thanks for any advice.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Sep 19, 2013 at 11:14 pm

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  There are two options for you.

  1. You can transfer your domain to another registrar (like godaddy) using these instructions here:

  Transfer a Domain to Another Registrar

  2. You can change your domain’s nameservers to point to your new webhost (godaddy) using these instructions:

  Change a Domain’s Name Servers

  Take a look through those pages and let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll be happy to help.