Replacing domain

[ky_khor]

My current domain & account is going to expire soon:

eg.
current domain: www.aaa.com
desired new domain: www.bbb.com
other registered domain: www.ccc.com.sg

1. ok let say i still want to use bluehost, but want to discard the current main domain (www.aaa.com) and all its content, then register a new domain with bluehost, which action is more relevant?

a. let the whole www.aaa.com and host expired, then purchase a new account register under www.bbb.com.

b. purchase www.bbb.com from bluehost. and put it in a subfolder as an addon. when www.aaa.com expired, www.bbb.com will become the main domain?

2. let say in the future i added www.ccc.com.sg in bbb/ccc folder, i know ccc.bbb.com, bbb.com/ccc and ccc.com.sg will point to the same directory. I only want the users to see www.ccc.com.sg.

How can i prevent ccc.bbb.com and bbb.com/ccc from showing on the address bar?

3. Somehow the other host asked for dns name and ip for redirection so i can do "addon domain" to the bluehost.

ns1.bluehost.com 74.220.195.31
ns2.bluehost.com 69.89.16.4

I get the IP by doing pinging. May i assume the IPs are correct? (n00b question)

4. Let say i've configure www.ccc.com.sg point to bluehost dns, and create an addon to my bluehost account. in the case where ANOTHER user create an addon direct my www.ccc.com.sg to his whatever.com account, what will happen?

[ky_khor]

hmmm not one feedback? should i rephrase them for easier undestanding?

[areidmtm]

You can reset the main domain, but you will have to contact bluehost support.

[adddfico]

1. Contact Bluehost support and have them rename your account. This will end up removing all files/databases/emails/etc from your account (ie it would end up like a brand new account).

2. Put something like this in your .htaccess file for that addon domain:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond {HTTP_HOST} ^ccc.bbb.com$ [NC, OR]
RewriteCond {HTTP_HOST} ^bbb.com$ [NC, OR]
RewriteCond {HTTP_HOST} ^ccc.com.sg$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ccc.com.sg/$ [R=301, L]

3. Yes, those are correct.

4. It wouldn't be possible for another user to attach your domain to their account as the same domain can't be attached to two different accounts at the same time with Bluehost. Besides, even if they could, when a domain is added to your account it, creates a record with their nameservers that tells it which server and which user that domain belongs to and points to that account.

[ky_khor]

Thanks for the feeback.

Actually i've created 2 tickets to bluehost in the 2 years of service(1 of them was created just this few days), but it's like throwing a coin to the ocean...... :rolleyes: