Appreciate your valuable time reading this. Hoping someone with real expertise and previous experience will be able provide me tips (do's and don'ts)/point me to the right direction.

My Requirement: I have a wordpress site with a domain name inspirationsunlimited.co.in hosted on GoDaddy; I've decided to move the site to a new host "HostGator" and site will have new TLD as .in (instead co.in the url will be inspirationsunlimited.in)

Objectives to Achieve:This where I need your expert advise.
1. I want to shift the site smoothly, with same file, folder, database, url structure etc.
2. I also want to redirect few individual article urls to new domain (many of the links are indexed by search engines) apart from old domain name to new domain name . Please remember I will not be keeping GoDaddy server once the transfer is done.

At this moment i think 1st point I should be able to perform. however I am more concerned on the 2nd point, I know i have to redirect the old urls (not many), I want to know the exact code i need to specify in .htaccess to redirect.

Thank you again and will look forward for your expert advice.

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Hello radiant, ok this is what I would do:
1.) login to your cpanel
2.) download your database & when done ( verify integrity )
3.) download a full back up of your main files ( verify integrity )
4.) download your email filters etc. ( verify integrity )
(if your new domain is already hosted & migrated)
NEXT:
5.) login to your cpanel. Click on fantastico and install wordpress
6.) upload your database overwriting your new database in phpmyadmin
7.) upload all your old files
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress (wordpress reference)
+Now all your content should be there on your new site.

Now about those redirects:
301 redirect htaccess ( google reference )
I felt this would best answer your questions. I find http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm will help you out the best.

Best of Luck

Thanks. I've had been visiting those websites.

Anyways, I will give it a try.

thanks for your sharing.

I hope everything works out for you radiant_luv .