DNS Upgrade

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  chestercotter · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 4:18 am

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  My wordpress site http://www.chestercotter.com does not show up. The dashboard is all there and seems to function. In Upgrades it says I need to upgrade DNS with the registrar. I thought WordPress was the registrar. What should I do?

  Thanks,

  Chester Cotter.

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 4:23 am

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  Although chestercotter.com has been registered, it is not using WordPress.com nameservers. If your domain is mapped to a self-hosted site, then your configuration may be fine as currently set up. If you wish to host your site at WordPress.com, you will need to update your nameservers as outlined below.

  To learn about how to correctly map an existing domain, please see our documentation. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/#instructions-for-mapping-an-existing-domain If you’re not sure whether you own this domain or not, the WHOIS database record may help you out. http://www.whois.net/whois/chestercotter.com

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 4:24 am

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  chestercotter.com. – the domain name registration seems to be in redemption – that will give you problems as well as the domain mapping has probably expired

  You will need staff help to fix the domain name – I will flag this for the staff to help

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  timethief · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 4:31 am

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  @auxclass
  Thanks :)

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 4:33 am

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  You be welcome –

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  chestercotter · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 4:34 pm

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  Hello and thank you auxclass and timethief for looking into this for me.

  I searched chestercotter.com with whois.net and it shows wildwestdomains as the registrar. I remember doing everything including choosing chestercotter.com all through wordpress last year but have no recollection of wildwestdomains. A search through my emails brings nothing with wildwestdomains in it.

  Can it be all done through wordpress? What should I do?

  Thanks,

  Chester Cotter.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 4:43 pm

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  I searched chestercotter.com with whois.net and it shows wildwestdomains as the registrar.

  Wild West is the domain registrar that handles all the WordPress.COM registrations – you do everything with WordPress.COM – what you saw is normal

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  chestercotter · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 7:30 pm

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  Is there anyone at wordpress who I could contact directly?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 11, 2013 at 10:37 am

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  Hi Chester, I just sent you an email about your domain chestercotter.com. You can reply directly to that email or let me know here if you don’t receive it. Thanks!