How we migrated our open source Next.js project website to new domain in 3 hours?

Over the weekend, we migrated our website and application on the new .com domain We considered that for some time, but started from very cheap io domain and literally did not have money for better, as we are 2 founders bootstrapped company. And generally believe domain is not important until the business start growing. One month ago, we decided it was time for a change. Our Next.js project, which has been running on papermark.io, was ready for to papermark.com. We broke down the process into simple, manageable steps to tackle in one day, as it kind of was scary, the scarier was only to buy this domain for $20k. What you will find in this article? We’re walking you through our journey from papermark.io to papermark.com in these steps:

Mar 12, 2025 - 17:21
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How we migrated our open source Next.js project website to new domain in 3 hours?

Over the weekend, we migrated our website and application on the new .com domain

We considered that for some time, but started from very cheap io domain and literally did not have money for better, as we are 2 founders bootstrapped company. And generally believe domain is not important until the business start growing.

One month ago, we decided it was time for a change. Our Next.js project, which has been running on papermark.io, was ready for to papermark.com.

We broke down the process into simple, manageable steps to tackle in one day, as it kind of was scary, the scarier was only to buy this domain for $20k.

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What you will find in this article?

We’re walking you through our journey from papermark.io to papermark.com in these steps: