Hi,
Was wondering if someone could help me. I have a situation where I have an existing domain name / wordpress installation, and I’d like to change the domain name. The WordPress installation / location / content all remain the same, in the same hosting location (page.ly).
The domain names are hosted on GoDaddy.
The site is http://yourlifeyoursex.com. We have http://greatlifegreatsex.com, and we’d like that to be the “main” URL. (We will redirect yourlifeyoursex to greatlifegreatsex.
I think these are the steps I need to take, but wanted to know if someone else has experience, and can let me know if I’m missing anything. I’d had to lose access to my site because the domains aren’t routing properly.
On GoDaddy:
1. Turn forwarding off on greatlifegreatsex.com.
2. Set the name servers on the domain greatlifegreatsex.com to Page.ly’s.
3. On my wordpress instance – in general/settings change wordpress URL from http://yourlifeyoursex.com to http://greatlifegreatsex.com
4. Forward domain yourlifeyoursex.com to greatlifegreatsex.com
I will continue to own both domains, and the site is relatively new. So, if there is content in the database that’s fully qualified, delays in forward from one domain to the other are fine. Also, any SEO history that is not kept is fine as well.
Am I missing anything? Is the order of doing things above correct? Any online documentation for this, I’ve not found anything complete enough. Any suggestions? (other than do a complete backup before starting! – you were all going to say that, right? 
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Many thanks in advance,
David
