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  dearpete1 · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 2:56 pm

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  I own the domain dearpete.com on a self-hosted site, but I’m thinking I’d like to move it to wordpress.com. The WP.com site dearpete.com is not active and has been deleted. How can I take over this name?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 7:01 pm

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  Hello there,
  When you purchase a domain mapping upgrade it does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com blog URL is. Moreover, deleted blog URLs cannot be registered.

  Read this first please http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from. To register a WordPress.com blog see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchase an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.

  NOTE: WordPress.com does not provide an email service for domains. See here for adding email http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/add-email/

  For moving your content see http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-from-wordpress-org