# How to transfer one domain to another
**URL:** https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695
**Category:** Hosting Support
**Created:** [March 19, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695 "2023-03-19T15:22:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Akshat\_Apoorv](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Akshat_Apoorv)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/1 "2023-03-19T15:22:57Z")
# Username or Website URL:
### epiz\_33057758
# Other Information:
### Hey I bought a domain from freenom but they recently paused their service and my domain expired and I can’t renew it so I bought a new domain and I want to transfer the old WordPress website including the database to the new WordPress website
### old website = watch.bizzy.ml = registered on infinityfree
### new website = watchtopia.site = not on infinityfree
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### Author:  [@HELPINDIA](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/HELPINDIA)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/2 "2023-03-19T16:00:24Z")
Use parked domain section in cpanel…
Or first take backup of both htdocs and databases
Then link new domain to your account and then restore the backup and change the site url using WordPress database
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### Author:  [@Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Greenreader9)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/3 "2023-03-19T16:01:20Z")
> [@How to add your own domain to your account](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-add-your-own-domain-to-your-account/49227):
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> While a free subdomain is a great way to get started, a website looks a lot more professional with a custom domain name. Fortunately, you can register your own domain name with an external company (like [Spaceship](https://www.infinityfree.com/go/spaceship)) and use it on InfinityFree. Adding your domain name to your hosting account To add your domain name to your hosting account, you first need to have a hosting account. Even if you only want to host your own domain with us, you’ll first need to create a hosting account with a subdomain,…
> [@What does Subdomain / Addon Domain / Parked Domain mean](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-does-subdomain-addon-domain-parked-domain-mean/49234):
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> In the control panel, you’ll find the sections called Addon Domains, Parked Domains and Subdomains. What do all those different domain types mean? What is a subdomain? In general, a subdomain is a domain which is a part of another domain name. So if you have the domain name [example.com](http://example.com), then [test.example.com](http://test.example.com) would be a subdomain of [example.com](http://example.com). And similarly, [sub.test.example.com](http://sub.test.example.com) is a subdomain of both [example.com](http://example.com) and [test.example.com](http://test.example.com). In your control panel, the Subdomains section allows you t…
You will also need to change your WP site URL in WP settings.
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### Author:  [@Akshat\_Apoorv](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Akshat_Apoorv)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/4 "2023-03-19T16:36:57Z")
that’s the problem downloading htdocs is a massive problem
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### Author:  [@Akshat\_Apoorv](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Akshat_Apoorv)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/5 "2023-03-19T16:50:26Z")
Pls help downloading the files in htdocs
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### Author:  [@Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Greenreader9)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/6 "2023-03-19T16:59:09Z")
You can’t use the online file manager to make large downloads. Please use a desktop FTP client like FileZilla.
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### Author:  [@Akshat\_Apoorv](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Akshat_Apoorv)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/7 "2023-03-19T17:01:12Z")
Useless fails most of the time and takes a lot of time
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### Author:  [@Akshat\_Apoorv](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Akshat_Apoorv)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/8 "2023-03-19T17:03:59Z")
and if I am using a parked domain how to order an SSL certificate for it?
watch.bizzy.ml domain is expired
watchtopia.site does not have a Cpanel
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### Author:  [@Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Greenreader9)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/9 "2023-03-19T17:08:23Z")
> [@Akshat\_Apoorv](#):
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> Useless fails most of the time
What error are you getting?
> [@Akshat\_Apoorv](#):
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> and takes a lot of time
Well if you’re downloading an entire WP installation, that’s expected. It’s also very dependent on your internet speed.
> [@Akshat\_Apoorv](#):
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> watchtopia.site does not have a Cpanel
Then you can’t install a certificate. If this domain is not hosted with InfinityFree, you need to contact your hosting provider for assistance.
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### Author:  [@Akshat\_Apoorv](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Akshat_Apoorv)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/10 "2023-03-19T17:12:15Z")
> [@Greenreader9](#):
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> What error are you getting?
That’s the problem I don’t get any error
> [@Greenreader9](#):
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> Well if you’re downloading an entire WP installation, that’s expected. It’s also very dependent on your internet speed.
30MBPS Download speed
> [@Greenreader9](#):
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> Then you can’t install a certificate. If this domain is not hosted with InfinityFree, you need to contact your hosting provider for assistance.
Ok
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### Author:  [@Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Admin)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/11 "2023-03-19T17:20:14Z")
This is the recommended way to backup a website here:
> [@How to backup your website](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-backup-your-website/49304):
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> Good website administration requires making backups of your account regularly and storing them somewhere safe yourself. You also need to download backups in order to migrate website to other hosting accounts. InfinityFree does not create or store any backups of free hosting accounts. It’s your responsibility to regularly create backups, and to store them somewhere safely. Backup your website files The best way to backup your website files is by downloading them using a desktop FTP client. Op…
Downloading an entire website over FTP can take some time, but you can generally just queue up the files and let [FileZilla](https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client) do it’s thing. You can also speed it up by increasing the number of concurrent connections from the default of 2 to the maximum of 10, which really makes the transfer five times as fast.
There is no other backup method I can recommend. If you’re having trouble using FTP, then let’s figure out how we can solve that. [FileZilla](https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client) has very good troubleshooting options, so there being “no error” can only mean you don’t know where to look.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-transfer-one-domain-to-another/73695/12 "2023-03-26T17:20:19Z")
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