I own a domain through WordPress and want to use it – how?

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  cpetersky · Member · Aug 30, 2025 at 6:12 pm

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  Hi!
  I own clairepetersky.com through WordPress. I’ve now built a nice little professional website on WordPress, and want to publish it under this domain. WordPress says it is taken – yes, I know, by me through you!!! How do I get WordPress to allow me to do this? Surely this is a common problem, but the AI support bot is useless.

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  josefhtest · Member · Aug 30, 2025 at 7:33 pm

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  Hi
  
  That sounds tricky, let’s figure this out together.

  I see that the domain is currently attached to the site clairepetersky.wordpress.com, which is the only site I see under your current WordPress.com account. Are you looking to connect the domain to another site under a different WordPress.com account, or create a new site and attach the domain to it?

  Let me know how you want to proceed so we can help you further.

  In the meantime, you can check these guides:
  Transfer a domain to another site
  Transfer a domain to another account
  Detach a domain from a site

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  cpetersky · Member · Sep 6, 2025 at 6:00 pm

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  Here is what I developed and want to port over to WordPress: https://cpetersky-hykpu.wordpress.com/

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  josefhtest · Member · Sep 6, 2025 at 10:25 pm

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  Hi,
  
  The domain clairepetersky.com is under a different WordPress.com account than cpetersky-hykpu.wordpress.com.
  
  If you have access to both accounts, you can follow the steps in this guide to transfer the domain clairepetersky.com over to cpetersky-hykpu.wordpress.com:
  Transfer a domain to another account
  
  If you need to recover access to the account, and you are familiar with the email/username used, you can try to reset the password:
  https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword 
  
  Let us know how it goes.