I own a domain and want to change its name

[Saint Nick]

Title explains it all -- how can I go about doing this? Is there an extra fee?

 

[sswingle]

Just register the new domain, set its nameservers to what your hosting company uses, log into your hosting account and update it with the new domain name.

 

[OdiN]

Yes, register a new one.

www.godaddy.com

Do not register through 1and1.

Actually I'd recommend going with a different host. I had them for a while and they were good but recently I had lots of downtime which was unanswered for, support is horridly slow.

 

[jjones]

Just run this function in a script on your server:

domain_replace('mydomain', 'mynewdomain', 'mydomain.com');

Where mydomain is your current domain name and mynewdomain is the new domain name you want.