Domain registration issue
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Hi, last night when I signed up for WordPress I clicked on the name I wanted, Thewrensnest.net, and proceeded to checkout and paid. Afterwards I noticed that the name came up as thewrensnestdotnet.wordpress.com and canceled the premium plan to start again and acquire the name I wanted. Now today that name is no longer available even though I tried again to just upgrade back to the premium plan. How do I fix this?
Thank you for your help,
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In order to map to a domain URL one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
Too bad you cancelled rather than waiting for domain name propagation to take place.
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the new domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the new domain URLs.
See here if you do not own a domain
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
See here if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/
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As Timethief notes, all WordPress.com sites have a permanent _______.wordpress.com URL. You can then add a custom _____.com type domain to that if you wish to customize your site.
I can try to recover thewrensnest.net for you. But please be aware that it may not be possible. This is why we warn users of this fact prior to doing any deleting/refunding.
Please let me know if you would like me to try and recover thewrensnest.net or if you would rather just pick a new domain.
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