How to switch back to wordpress.com

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  raw51 · Member · May 17, 2012 at 2:18 pm

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  I started out at wordpress.com and purchased my domain through them. I then wanted to try wordpress.org so I changed the nameserver on my domain…. now that I want to switch back to wordpress.com I don’t know how? I’m not worried about keeping any data… I just need to know how to get the wordpress.com software when I log into my domain so I can change the namersevers back.
  Blog url: http://dirtywormy.wordpress.com/

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  davewhitley · Staff · May 17, 2012 at 4:04 pm

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  The blog you have linked is actually running WordPres.com. Any blog with a “.wordpress.com” extension is running WordPress.com.

  Are you sure you moved to a WordPress.org instance?

  To read up on the differences, visit: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  raw51 · Member · May 17, 2012 at 5:19 pm

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  Originally I set up a blog at dirtywormy.wordpress.com

  Purchased a domain from wp.com – so my domain is actually http://www.dirtywormy.com

  Recently I did a free trial of hosting with dreamhost & they autoinstalled wordpress.org

  I then changed the nameservers on my dirtywormy domain

  Since I closed my dreamhost account I was able to access the original dirtywormy.wordpress.com account and have changed the nameservers back to wordpress

  But when I look up my site by domain dirtywormy.com there is a problem and it’s unavailable

  Did I miss a step or does it just take a while for the change to take effect?

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  davewhitley · Staff · May 17, 2012 at 6:50 pm

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  dirtywormy.com seems to be set up properly.

  Nameserver changes can take up to 72 hours to complete, but it is usually much less.

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  raw51 · Member · May 17, 2012 at 10:19 pm

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  yep – it’s all back to normal now. Thank you!