how do I unlock my domain

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  michellemits · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 2:23 pm

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  Hello
  I would like to unlock my domain. Can you please assist me with this?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 11, 2018 at 3:42 am

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  Hi there, are you wanting to transfer the registration of the michellekathleen.com domain to another registrar? If so, see the following support page for information on transferring the domain.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/move-domain/transfer-domain-registration/

  If you are just wanting to apply that domain to another site hosted elsewhere, you can also edit your domain nameservers and point it at the other web host and leave it registered here.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/move-domain/change-name-servers/

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  michellemits · Member · Jul 11, 2018 at 4:03 pm

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  Thank you for your response. I am wanting to use the same domain michellekathleen.com on a squarespace site (from wordpress to squarespace)

  Could you please advise which of the two links provided would be best.

  very much appreciated,

  Michelle

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Jul 11, 2018 at 4:12 pm

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  Hi Michelle –

  Either option will work.

  Transferring the domain would require that you unlock it. It will be completely disconnected from WordPress.com at that point. The benefit here is that everything would be in one place for you. This normally makes management a bit easier.

  Changing the name servers would leave your domain registered with us, but it would load the square space site in browsers. It would be pointed to their service, but not actually transferred there. This is a simple setting change. If you aren’t certain you’ll stay at square space then this might be a good option.