Domain expired, repurchased it and site is gone?

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  warriorwifelife · Member · Feb 15, 2021 at 9:18 pm

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  My domain expired in October and I didn’t realize it. I repurchased it but my whole website seems gone? I can’t figure out what I need to do to reconnect it.

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  supernovia · Staff · Feb 15, 2021 at 9:53 pm

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  Hi there — I see the domain seems okay and is properly mapped here, but the site on our servers wasn’t set up.

  Did you have a site hosted elsewhere for a while, and if so, are you able to check in with that host?

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  warriorwifelife · Member · Feb 17, 2021 at 4:36 pm

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  I used bluehost, is there a step I forgot to do once I reactivated my domain?

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  aleone89 · Staff · Feb 17, 2021 at 4:38 pm

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  Hello there,

  Ah ok, if the site is hosted with Bluehost, you would need to point the domain to blue host servers via custom DNS settings.

  Please see how to do this here: https://wordpress.com/support/domains/custom-dns/#changing-name-servers-to-point-to-wordpress-com

  The required DNS settings would be provided by Bluehost.

  I hope this helps.