Domain Name Lost?
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Hello,
I recently received a request to use “laserwolf” as a domain name, so since I don’t really use this blog anymore, I decided to change the name and give it to my friend. I changed the name successfully, but I clicked the option to “permanently delete this domain name” or something while changing names. I thought I needed to do this in order to delete it from my account, but now it seems like the laserwolf domain name is unavailable for use. Is there any way I can simply get the name back and then transfer the whole blog to him? I see that that is an option but did not try that first. Let me know if this is possible, thank you!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It sounds like you will need Staff help with this. I will flag this thread for Staff attention. Do be aware that they will need to know what the exact domain name in question is.
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That would be great, thank you. The domain name was simply my username, laserwolf, and then .wordpress.com, until I changed it.
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Oh so we aren’t talking about a domain at all. We are talking about a wordpress.com sub-domain transfer of http://laserwolf.wordpress.com to another wordpress.com username account. Have you followed these instructions or not? http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
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Hello again,
I did not follow that process and I think that I should have done that instead. I followed the procedure for changing the name of the blog from laserwolf.wordpress.com to mitadventures.wordpress.com, thinking that this would free up the sub-domain name “laserwolf” for this person, but now I think that the name is just frozen (I tried making a new blog with the laserwolf name shortly afterward and it says that the name is taken). I followed these instructions (http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/) and selected the option to “Discard Current Address”. Let me know if that makes sense, thank you! -
Oh no! You deleted http://laserwolf.wordpress.com despite the 3 warnings that said deletion is permanent and cannot be reversed. Once a URL id deleted here it’s gone forever. There is no recycling.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/I’m sorry what more can I say?
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Wow, I did not realize that…I thought maybe there was some way to reverse it so that I could just transfer the blog to him directly follow the instructions that you gave earlier. If there really isn’t anything I can do to reverse it then I really messed up…thank you for the info.
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hello
please i need help. i am new to word press, i just registered my domain name and hosting with another company but want to use it on word press blog but i can not. something like domain mapping showed but i don’t really understand what it stands for. can any one help me out there. -
“just registered my domain name”
what is the domain name?“hosting with another company”
which hosting company?“want to use it on word press blog”
which blog?Domain mapping > http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
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