how do I remove parked domain page courtesy of wordpress

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  dollardiner · Member · Mar 21, 2015 at 2:38 pm

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  I am moving my blog to my own hosting account. and I pointed DNS to it. Cleared my Cache. Now I can only get an ad page that says at the top, “This page is parked free, courtesy of WordPress.com”
  How do i get WordPress to remove this page so I can access my new admin?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 21, 2015 at 3:56 pm

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  That often happens when you change both the nameservers AND set up an A Record. You need to do one or the other, not both. If you are using an A Record, you need to have WordPress.com nameservers. If you are using your webhosts nameservers, you do not need an A Record.

  Does that make sense?

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  dollardiner · Member · Mar 21, 2015 at 4:10 pm

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  No it doesn’t. but how do I remove the A record. When and where did I create the A record?

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  dollardiner · Member · Mar 21, 2015 at 5:07 pm

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  I found where I can edit my domains in the domain manager.
  Existing DNS records show that the A record and the NS record are both handled by WordPress.com

  If I click to edit, it only allows me to add an A record. So I redirected the nameservers to my wordpress name server. to try and start all over.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 9:22 pm

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  Can you tell me where you’re trying to point your domain?