Sold Domain – how do I transfer to new owner ?

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  sil80lady · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 9:06 pm

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  Hello,

  I have recently agreed to sell my domain name to another person, how do I transfer ownership of the domain name to them ? and how do I transfer the domain/blog blank ?

  Thanks !

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 9:07 pm

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  Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner and it is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and associated email address.

  You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchased upgrades to renew them or transfer the blogs and the upgrades to another username account.

  To transfer a blog from one username account A to another username account B you must first log in under the username account A that owns the blog you want to transfer to the other username account.

  Then you add the other username account B as an Admin of the blog.
  adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
  user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  Then you A can use this process to transfer the blog to that username account B instead http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

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  sil80lady · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 7:27 pm

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  Thank you for your reply, can you explain why it is necessary to add username account B as admin before transferring the Blog ? it seems I can just transfer the blog without that step as per this link you included in your last reply:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

  Thanks