how can i change my current domain name?

toni29 · Member · Dec 17, 2009 at 7:27 pm
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is it possible to change my domain name to another name.wordpress.com domain name?

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2009 at 7:32 pm
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You can register as many wordpress.com blogs as you wish under the same email address. http://wordpress.com/signup If you do not wish the blogs to all be accessible from your current navigation bar then you must use different email addresses.

Provided the name of the name of the subdomain you want is not already in use then the answer to your question is “yes”. This support documentation entry applies to your situation and contains instructions for accomplishing what you want to do
http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/
toni29 · Member · Dec 17, 2009 at 7:46 pm
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thanks…i created the new domain. but what i want to do specifically is change my blog’s existing domain name to the new domain name. is this possible?

i want to change http://toni29.wordpress.com/ to http://fabyoungdesi.wordpress.com

how can i do that?
timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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No you cannot change a url arbitrarily. You can either make the first blog “private” and use it as a test blog. Or your can delete it. But do note that if you delete it you can never have it back and the url can never be used again.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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If you have contents in the first blog that you wish to move to the new blog you can export them out of the 1st blog and import them into the new blog.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/import-export-links/
unmallya · Member · Dec 17, 2009 at 8:18 pm
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@toni29

Incase your new blog is registered under different user name you can use Transfer blog feature from MY Blogs on your dashboard.

Check this support document
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
toni29 · Member · Dec 17, 2009 at 8:21 pm
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thank you both!
timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2009 at 8:24 pm
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It’s important to understand that if you have duplicate contents in two public blogs this can result in a Google penalty.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359 You must either make the first one “private” or remove the duplicate contents from it if you wish to leave it “public”.
Change the privacy setting on the 1st blog here -> Settings -> Privacy to keep search engines out of it.

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