How do I transfer my domain from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

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  sebastiandbland · Member · Oct 21, 2014 at 7:44 pm

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  I purchased my domain via WordPress.com, before finding out that I cannot customise my themes or plugins on wordpress.com. I then decided to use a web hosting company called Bluehost, but WordPress.com already has my domain, how would I go about rectifying this? Just by updating the nameservers?

  I have tried editing the DNS of my WordPress.com domain to redirect it to my web hostt account with the nameserver IP’s, but when I entered my URL into the browser, it just took me back to my original blog on WordPress.com.

  I feel this is such a massive confusion on WordPress’ end and this is completely unfair on a new user to go through this process. I’d just like to find an easy way to be able to transfer everything over to WordPress.org so I can upload my own themes. Thanks in advance and apologies for the frustration.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 21, 2014 at 8:37 pm

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  Your domain is subject to a 60 day transfer lock. We have no control over this. However, you can set the name servers so that your domain points to your new site:

  Change a Domain’s Name Servers

  Use the actual name servers, not the IP addresses. I believe Bluehost’s look something like this:

  ns1.bluehost.com
  ns2.bluehost.com

  Once the 60 day transfer lock is up, you can transfer your domain to Bluehost following these steps:

  Transfer a Domain to Another Registrar

  Let me know if there’s anything else I can help with!