Domain transfer, but shows like domain expired

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  oscarcastedo · Member · Aug 25, 2014 at 8:39 pm

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  Dear all,

  I have just transfer my custom domain (oscarcastedo.com) from WordPress.com to Namecheap, and completed on august 24th. The website hosting is still under WordPress.com (no changes on it)
  I received the confirmation from Namecheap that the transfer is completed and also from WordPress.com that the transfer has been executed.

  However, currently I face some issues with this. It seems like the domain oscarcastedo.com is not available but it’s expired. How does it possible?

  Should I change something else?

  Thank you so much in advance.

  Regards
  Oscar

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Aug 26, 2014 at 9:39 pm

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  Hi Oscar,

  So it looks like your domain name: oscarcastedo.com is registered under enom as seen here:

  http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=oscarcastedo.com

  However, the domain mapping has expired (this allows you to point domains registered elsewhere to WordPress.com).

  Please go to Store > My Upgrades to renew the domain mapping.

  Let me know if you have any questions with this!

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  oscarcastedo · Member · Aug 26, 2014 at 11:02 pm

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  Hi Grace,

  thank you for your response.

  So you mean that, although I transfer my domain (oscarcastedo.com) to another provider (namecheap in this case) and keep the hosting under wordpress.com, I would need to renew the domain mapping service for your hosting (this is 13 USD, right).

  Thank you in advance.

  Regards
  Oscar

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Aug 27, 2014 at 4:11 pm

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  Hi Oscar,

  Please make sure you own the domain: oscarcastedo.com because when I looked up the domain it was registered under eNom, not NameCheap:

  http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=oscarcastedo.com

  If you are the owner of the domain then yes, please log into your WordPress.com account, and go to Store > My Upgrades in your Dashboard. There will be a link to renew the domain mapping.