- Short answer
- Yes, and it is free — but if you typed a store name at signup, Shopify counts that as one of your two changes, leaving one.
- Which count applies to you
- Typed a store name at signup? Every page we read leaves one rename. Auto-generated? Some say one, some say two.
- The limit from the admin
- One page ties the 1-time limit to your Shopify admin; others state one time with no such qualifier.
- Your old address
- It redirects to the new one automatically, and Shopify says a myshopify.com domain can't be removed or transferred.
- Logging in
- You and your staff still need your previous myshopify.com domain to log in and to contact Shopify Support.
- Not documented
- The domain pages we read never state whether renaming affects installed apps or API credentials.
- Not this question?
- Making a custom domain your primary one is a separate action, answered on our primary-domain page.
How many renames do you actually get?
Shopify's domains terminology page counts every change the address has had, signup included:
You can only change your myshopify.com domain two times. If you entered a store name when you signed up, then this is considered the first time you changed the myshopify.com domain and you can change it one other time.
Other Shopify pages put it at 1 time, one of them from your Shopify admin and others with no such qualifier. If your address was auto-generated, you never spent that first change, and the two-change pages leave two.
For a store named at signup, every page we read lands in the same place: one rename.
Changing your Store name in settings doesn't touch the domain, so it doesn't count. The rename is free — a different question from what a domain costs and who owns it. As of August 2026, no changelog entry we found records a change to either limit.
What happens to your old address — and your login
You don't have to create any URL redirects yourself. The previous myshopify.com domain redirects to the new one automatically. Shopify says a myshopify.com domain can't be removed or transferred, and calls your original one a permanent identifier.
Your admin URL follows the rename; your login does not. Shopify says you and your staff still need your previous myshopify.com domain to log in and to contact Shopify Support.
The Shopify domain pages we read in August 2026 never state whether renaming affects installed apps or API credentials.
Renaming is not the same as making a custom domain primary
Shopify presents these as separate choices: rename your myshopify.com domain, or buy a custom domain and set that as primary. Until you add one, myshopify.com is your primary domain — if that is what you want to change, see changing your primary domain.
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