I done goof'd a domain alias/hosting setup. Help.

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Will try to make this concise and simple even if it's a clusterfuq in my head.

- Bought domain/hosting for domainA.com at godaddy (laugh it up)
- Decided niche was too tight. Broadened vertical by rebranding name and logo.
- Got cute and bought new name for domainB.com at namecheap

- Didn't know how to replace domainA.com with domainB.com with it being on a new register and all
- Read documentation and even some youtube tutorials, decided just to use domainB.com as alias for domainA.com

I realllllly don't like this setup. It says it takes up to 48hours, but it's already been 20something hours and domainB.com's DNS servers still haven't sync'd with the ones i gave it from domainA's hosting.

I was already 12 or so 800 word articles into the first site and didn't want to start over. thoughts? suggestions? flames?
 
I'd point the DNS of DomainB to the GoDaddy server:
Then I'd figure out in GoDaddy how to "untie" the domain to the hosting package. This likely will mean removing it's DNS settings. Then I'd 301 DomainA to DomainB or just let it drop and do nothing with it:

I'm pretty sure GoDaddy is using Apache servers. You'd enable the ability to see invisible files and open .htaccess and add:
Code: 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domainA.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domainA.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainB.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
If you don't want to use www on DomainB then leave it out above on the final line.
 
You could host domain B wherever you want and 301 domain A to it. Is domain A indexed and getting traffic? You may want to do page level redirects in .htaccess.
 
I can understand why you want to salvage the content, but you didn't mention if domainA has any value (name, traffic, something else?). If not, I would just migrate the content over to domainB and shut the other domain down.

If you need to salvage something in terms of ongoing traffic or backlinks or whatever, then 301 the old article url's on domainA to the matching article on domainB. Be careful with overdoing the 301's though, it's a very common spammer tactic which means it's been on Google's abuse radar for a long time. I've gotten burned doing this so be cautious.
 
ryandiscord said:
You could host domain B wherever you want and 301 domain A to it. Is domain A indexed and getting traffic? You may want to do page level redirects in .htaccess.
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yuckystuff said:
I can understand why you want to salvage the content, but you didn't mention if domainA has any value (name, traffic, something else?). If not, I would just migrate the content over to domainB and shut the other domain down.
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thanks a lot guys didn't even think about this. not gettin traffic, rankings for anything right now. coming up on 48hours after the dns server change at domainB and it's still not pinging. will probably take you alls suggestion.
 
You should probably just hire someone for an hour to fix the nameserver/resolution issue. It's clear you screwed up somewhere and if you have never done it before it'll be difficult to spot the error. It doesn't take 48 hours, it takes 5-10 minutes, the MAX is 48 hours for a FULL around the world distribution in a worse case scenario that there is some DNS server in the middle of nowhere that actually is setup to check every 48 hours - that is EXTREMELY RARE. The most it will take for your location is your TTL setting (Time to Live) in your setup and most are set to 3600 seconds (1 hours) now a days - if I remember correctly.

Your setup is screwed up, just hire someone to fix it and learn from your mistake and the correction, it'll be a lot less headaches and you'll learn what you did wrong from an expert.
 
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Alas, the namecheap service everyone has been singing the praises of is migrating my site off my godaddy hosting to newly purchased namecheap hosting. Didn't mind giving them cpanel credentials cause it's the only site hosted, minimal invested, etc

will be nice to be hosted under a much cleaner/simplified UI. of course now i'm back to having my register/hosting under the same provider lulz. fuk it.
 
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