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Managing Your Hosting Account Domains

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Last Updated: January 24, 2012 11:02 AM

After you set up your hosting account, you can manage the domain names it uses:

Add Domains Add domains to your account to either alias your existing website or host entirely independent websites.
Remove Domains Remove domains you added but no longer want to use on this hosting account. This also lets you move domain names between hosting accounts.
Change Primary Domain Changing the primary hosted domain name lets you host a different website in the root folder of your hosting account.

Add Domains

You can add domain names to any type of hosting account. However, what you can do with additional domain names depends on the type of hosting account you have. For more information, see What type of hosting account do I have?

Secondary Secondary domains have websites that work independently of the primary domain's hosted in separate folders. For more information, see Hosting Multiple Websites on Your Hosting Account.

Available with Deluxe, Premium, Unlimited, and Ultimate accounts.
Aliases Alias domains display the primary domain's website with a different domain name/URL.

Available with all accounts.

To Add Domains

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Web Hosting.
  3. Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
  4. From the Settings menu, select Domain Management.
  5. Click Add Domain.
  6. Enter the domain name in the Domain field.
  7. For Deluxe and Ultimate plans, enter a new or existing folder in the Folder field. This is where you need to upload the domain's website. If you do not enter a folder, the domain works as an alias.

    Do not enter any spaces in the Folder field.

  8. Click OK.

What's next?

For the domain name to access the hosting account, you must update its DNS. If the domain name and hosting are in...

Same Account We automatically update the domain name's DNS.
Different Accounts You need to manually update the DNS. For more information, see Finding Your Hosting Account's IP Address.

Remove Domains

Removing domain names lets you:

  • Disassociate it from this hosting account.
  • Add the domain name you remove to another hosting account.
  • Make it the primary domain name of this hosting account.

To Remove Domains

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Web Hosting.
  3. Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
  4. From the Settings menu, select Domain Management.
  5. Select the domain(s) to remove and click Remove.
  6. Click OK. The domain's subdomains will also be removed.

It can take up to 48 hours to remove domain names from your account.

Changing Your Primary Domain Name

Changing the primary domain name on a hosting account lets you change the domain name associated with account's root directory.

There are a few things to keep in mind:

  • If you already added the domain name you want to use as your primary hosted domain name, you need to remove it first. For more information, see the Removing Domains section of this article.
  • If you have an SSL certificate applied to your hosting account, you cannot change your primary hosted domain name without revoking your SSL. For more information, see Revoking an SSL Certificate.
  • WordPress® installations can break when you change your primary domain. If they do, see the instructions on WordPress's site

To Change Your Primary Hosted Domain

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Web Hosting.
  3. Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
  4. From the Settings menu, select Domain Change (Primary).
  5. Select your primary hosted domain, and then click Change Primary.
  6. Enter the new primary domain for your account, and then click OK.