Upgrading/ moving an expiring domain from GoDaddy

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  voodoodan · Member · Nov 5, 2011 at 10:04 pm

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  My agreement with GoDaddy is about to expire and I would like to cut out them of the loop and give wordpress my $$$ for domain hosting, instead of having it hosted there and pointing here.

  Do I need to wait until my service with them has expired fully or can I upgrade my WordPress acct. to begin domain hosting before that? Would this involve repointing the nameservers at Godaddy and then letting that account drift away?

  I understand I’ll lose my email service but can set one up again at google with to work with a wordpress domain…

  Any other things I should consider before attempt this?

  Thanks

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 6, 2011 at 3:45 pm

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  Hi. You can follow this procedure at any time:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  And this his how you can use Google Apps:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/

  Friendly advice: NEVER let your domain name expire with the hopes that you can buy it from WordPress.com later on. Someone else may buy it before you in order to resell it.