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How to change the Primary/Main Domain ?
At times, you may feel the need of changing the Main or Primary domain name present in your web hosting account. the subsequent steps will assist you with either ever-changing or renaming it.
A – it’s vital to have the possession or the access to the domain control panels of both the domains.
B – supported the scale of your web hosting account, it’d take anyplace between ONE to 5 hours for the rename Process. Whereas, the nameserver propagation will take five hours to 24 hours.
C – Initial of all, you have to ensure that the domain name that you simply would like to change is related with the account.
D – The files/folders, databases and emails wouldn’t face the effects of this alteration. But, of the username and parole, you may required to manually make changes within the database. You’ll be able to raise your developers to make the changes.
E – The modified name would point to the public_html directory, because it did before you made the changes.
F – Though, inorder to correspond with the modified domain web site related files may need to be transferred into and out of the public_html directory. And to assign previous main domain to a subfolder likewise.
G – Customized DNS records are overwritten over the server. However enclose the domain isn’t registered with us, you may have to contact your registrar to get the Name Servers changed.
H – The method of renaming the account doesn’t cause any impact on the files contained within the account. Hence, you would need not take a backup of the files nor the databases before continuing with the process.
But, after you are making any changes to your sites, it’s an good follow to take care of a backup. You’ll be able to refer the subsequent procedure to go on doing so: Backup Database from PHPMyAdmin.
I – Furthermore, if the domain is registered with us, we are able to apply the required updates to its name servers. But, enclose you’ve registered it with another registrar, you may need to ask them to make the required NS updates.
Once all the required formalities ar completed, you’ll be able to get in contact with us either via. Live support Chat, Call or submit a ticket with the Billing department requesting for the changes to be applied to your account.
FYI., we’d need the below details for the aim of change it in your account:
- Current Main Domain Name
- New Domain Name
NOTE : For our customers who have a cPanel hosting account, and need to make such changes, it’s important for you to understand that, if the new domain name that you simply would like to change because of the primary domain, has been added to the account as an Add-On domain, you’ll have to be take away it initial. Only then you’ll be able to modify it because of the Primary domain. Later you’ll be able to move adding the previous main domain as an Add-on domain.