DNS change from wordpress.org to wordpress.com

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  christinarosebrown · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 9:13 am

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  I want to change from a self-hosted wordpress.org blog to a wordpress.com hosted blog, is that possible? I currently have a custom domain (asensesublime.com) that I would like to point to it, however I don’t know how to change the DNS name servers. At the moment they point to a page that says my hosting has expired. I no longer want to self host, so do not want to renew this.

  Many thanks

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  sixhours · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 4:24 pm

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  Howdy!

  It looks like your domain, asensesublime.com, is pointing to your WordPress.com site. Yay!

  Sometimes DNS changes can take up to 72 hours to take full effect, so it’s possible you successfully changed the DNS but weren’t seeing the change right away. This is normal.

  If that’s not the case, can you let me know so I can take another look? Thanks!

  Cheers,
  Caroline

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  christinarosebrown · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 4:27 pm

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  Hi,

  Yes – I have managed to change it.
  Though it is now pointing to a page that says ‘this page cannot be found’, I have put a test post up, so I am not sure why that isn’t displaying?
  Any help would be much appreciated.

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  sixhours · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 4:31 pm

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  Awesome, glad the DNS is sorted. :)

  I am seeing your test post there, so I’m thinking this is a browser cache issue. Can you try clearing your browser cache & cookies? You can find instructions for doing so here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/

  Let me know if that solves the problem.

  Cheers,
  Caroline

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  christinarosebrown · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 4:34 pm

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  Yes, I just tried on a different browser and it worked! Thank you so much!

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  sixhours · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 5:38 pm

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  Fantastic, happy to help! :)