Domain Questions

I bought a domain a while back (wedevoy.com), what I want to do is change it to something else because I don't feel that it's a good name anymore. Do I have to wait until the domain expires or can I change it right now on the following "domain session" without paying anything more?

I'm registered with namecheap.com and I can't find an option or anything like that. I will open a ticket there and ask about it, but I also wanted to ask here from experienced users... don't want them to trick me into anything

You might have to register another domain name and use a redirect.

I really don't want to pay anything more than what I did, but if there is no choice I'll try that. I'm thinking of a domain name right now.

Thanks, any more ideas would be great.

Generally when you register a domain name, you're pre-paying for a year long (or longer) registration. Though I suppose it's possible to register for a period shorter than 12 months, I've never seen it available.

Go through your control panel where you have the domain registered, make sure there's no auto-renewal setup. You might want to contact support about this, tell them something like you've used a prepaid credit card to register and you don't want it to auto-renew to an empty card and cause problems, they'll forget about trying to get you to stick around if they don't think you're leaving.

Other than that, you'll just register a new domain name and have the requests for the old domain redirect to the new domain untill the old domain expires.

Expiration date: 18 Jun 2009 21:05:32

That's your expiration date for wedevoy.com ^^^^.

You are going to have to pay anyway in less than a year.

If you've got external links pointing to you now, you'll be doing youself a favor by registering the new domain long enough before the old one expires that you can setup the redirect and give everyone time to update their bookmarks/indexes.

If you wait until the last minute, you will no longer have control over the existing domain, meaning you can't tell people with old bookmarks where to go.

Good idea joebert, although I'm sure that nobody has bookmarked my site since I neglected it for over 2+ months

I will do that sometimes this coming week, right now and tomorrow are not for it though.

Thanks for your help joebert.

i also had the same problem so i registered another domain name and redirected.