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Change the site that your certificate protects (change the domain name)

Updated Jul 14th at 14:51 BST

You can change your SSL certificate's common name, which is the primary domain name that the certificate secures and encrypts. How you change your common name depends on where your certificate is currently hosted:

Hosting	What to do
Primary domain on a tsoHost hosting account	Uninstall your certificate from its currentlocation. Change the domain name on your hostingcPanel Follow the steps below.
Anywhere else	Follow the steps below.

Go to your tsoHost Client area
Go to Services → my Services
Select the exact certificate in product list
Click "login to Control panel"
Select Change the site that your certificate protects.
Select one of the following based on where your website is hosted:

Hosting	What to do
Shared hosting	Select Move your certificate to one of your hosted domains, and then select the domain name you want to use.
Elsewhere	Select Change to a different domain and enter the common name you want to use for the certificate.

Select Add Change.
If you provided a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) from your server when you got your original SSL certificate and you're moving to a new server, you'll need to add an additional change to re-key the certificate with a CSR from the new server. Select Re-Key your certificate, paste the new CSR, and select Add Change.
Select Submit All Changes.

Note: With an Organization Validation (Premium and Wildcard and Extended Validation SSLs), you can only change the common name, not the organization's information