{"id":1303,"date":"2019-09-03T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/09\/03\/3306367-how-to-change-the-email-address-of-a-hostinger-account\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:11:26","slug":"3306367-how-to-change-the-email-address-of-a-hostinger-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/3306367-how-to-change-the-email-address-of-a-hostinger-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Email Address of a Hostinger Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you&rsquo;ve lost access to your email account, refer here: <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/3284259-how-to-recover-access-to-your-hostinger-account-if-you-can-t-access-your-email-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to recover access to a Hostinger without having access to the currently linked email account<\/a> &#128161;<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">You can easily change your Hostinger account email address. Once you&rsquo;re logged in to your Hostinger account, click on the <b>profile icon<\/b> in the top-right and choose the <b>Account Information <\/b>option:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/760e5afa-66da-4b25-a93d-391d13bee98a.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger account menu with Account Information highlighted for selection\" width=\"300\" data-media-id=\"4944\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once there, scroll down to the <b>Account settings<\/b> section and click on the <b>Email <\/b>field:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/1c83f541-1dae-4e93-9129-3e3b08040261.jpg\" alt=\"Account settings email field with current email address highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4945\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Enter your new email address and click on <b>Continue<\/b>. Next, confirm by entering your <b>password<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the change is applied, you will be requested to <b>verify <\/b>it via email or your&nbsp;<a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4888148-how-to-set-up-two-factor-authentication-on-your-hostinger-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-factor authentication<\/a>&nbsp;method if enabled.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #feedaf80;border-color: #fbc91633\"><strong>Important:<\/strong> You cannot use an email address hosted under a domain registered in the same Hostinger account as your account login email or recovery email. For example, if you own <code class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\">yourdomain.com<\/code> in your Hostinger account, you cannot set <code class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\">you@yourdomain.com<\/code> as your account email or recovery email. This prevents account lockout in the event the domain expires and the associated mailbox stops working. Use an external email provider (e.g., Gmail, Outlook) for your account and recovery email.<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you need to change your domain&rsquo;s contact information (e.g., to <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4068055-how-to-move-a-domain-between-different-hostinger-accounts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">move a domain<\/a> between Hostinger accounts), follow this guide instead: <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4778256-how-to-change-your-domain-contact-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to change domain contact details<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>You cannot change your profile email or add a backup email if the target email address uses a domain purchased within that same Hostinger account. This restriction does not affect new account registrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing email address linked to your Hostinger profile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-managing-your-profile"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/3306367-how-to-change-the-email-address-of-a-hostinger-account\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/3306367-como-cambiar-el-email-registrado-en-tu-cuenta-de-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/3306367-comment-changer-l-email-enregistre-pour-votre-compte-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/3306367-cara-mengubah-email-akun-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/3306367-como-alterar-o-e-mail-registrado-para-sua-conta-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}