Dropping My Website
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Hi. We had our website hosted by ipage. We’ve opted to not renew our site and are letting the domain name registration lapse. How will this affect my wordpress account/site? Do I need to have a domain name and/or a website associated with my blog site?
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Are you using a domain registered with ipage for a WordPress.com site? Or are you hoping to use a domain you had registered with ipage for your WordPress.com site in the future?
If so, you should not cancel the domain registration or let it expire. That runs a risk of, at best, not allowing you to register the domain again for a few months. And at worst, it risks someone else swiping the domain out from under you before you can register it again.
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Just to be clear, while it may seem like you should be able to register a domain right after it expires, that isn’t the case I’m afraid. Domain expiration is a rather long process:
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I’ll see if I can answer you like I know what I’m talking about 😊 So, I have a wordpress.com account that’s my name and under that is a wordpress.com blog that uses the website name. My account is krstruble and I “own” the blog godsnomads.com/blog.
I don’t mind retaining the domain registry but I’m canceling hosting of godsnomads.org with ipage. So when the website goes away, will the blog also go away since there won’t be a godsnomads.org anymore? -
You have a self-hosted WordPress site (commonly called a WordPress.ORG site). If you cancel your webhosting with ipage, yes, your site will disappear.
To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
WordPress.org has complete documentation and support sites for self-hosted/installed versions of WordPress.org at http://codex.wordpress.org/ and http://wordpress.org/support/ Your webhost’s support team is another good resource.
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