bluehost has hijacked my blog, from my point of view

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  nfgould · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 3:18 pm

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  when I attempt to view my blog (to check its appearrance) I’m redirected to bluehost, which is offering to sell me the domain name http://tax.bswblogs.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 3:54 pm

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  Who is your web host?

  Did you let the domain name expire at some point?

  Is your site supposed to be on wordpress.com or somewhere else?

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  nfgould · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 3:54 pm

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  it is supposed to be on wordpress.com

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  beau · Staff · Jan 16, 2013 at 4:07 pm

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  It looks like your domain mapping upgrade is expiring soon.

  You can log in at https://taxbswblogs.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ and then go to Store > Domains to renew it.

  In addition, it looks like the registration of your actual domain (bswblogs.com) with Bluehost has expired: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/bswblogs.com (scroll down, see the “Expires on…” entry).

  You would need to renew your domain with Bluehost (which appears to be where you host the *domain name*), and then within the next few days you’ll also need to renew your domain mapping plugin (here on WP.com) to continue hosting the actual site on WordPress.com.