Lost my domain…

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  frugallivingandcrafting · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 1:42 am

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  The domain on my website expired without my being aware of it and didn’t auto-renew. Now I can’t access my blog or posts. Is there any way to recover the posts so they can be moved to a new domain? When I click on the link for posts, nothing comes up. Are they lost forever?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  supernovia · Staff · Apr 18, 2017 at 1:43 am

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  Hi, do you mean these posts?
  https://frugallivingandcrafting.wordpress.com/

  It’s the only site I see on your account. If you’re referring to a different site, can you send a link?

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  frugallivingandcrafting · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 1:49 am

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  The site I’m referring to is connected to my WordPress account, but it was http://www.frugallivingandcrafting.com But because the domain expired and another company has it, I can’t access that page. I can access the maintenance area for it on WordPress, but when I click on posts, it isn’t showing that there are any, I assume because the links for them don’t work anymore since I no longer have that domain.

  I still have access to http://www.frugalivingandcrafting.wordpress.com and the posts that were made there, but I can’t figure out how to get anything that was posted on http://www.frugallivingandcrafting.com now.

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  supernovia · Staff · Apr 18, 2017 at 5:59 pm

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  Hi @frugallivingandcrafting, if the site is hosted with us, it will have a something.wordpress.com address associated with it as well. And the site at that address will still exist.

  If you bought hosting through another company and installed your own copy of WordPress.org there, all of your data would be stored with that company, if they still have it.

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  frugallivingandcrafting · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 8:53 pm

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  I hosted through WordPress I think, I just had the domain through GoDaddy. There’s a frugallivingandcrafting.wordpress.com on my account along with the http://www.frugallivingandcrafting.com site, but the WordPress one only has the posts up to the point where I switched to the other domain. Would there be another link or something where the blog would be?

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  supernovia · Staff · Apr 19, 2017 at 4:29 pm

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  @frugallivingandcrafting I did a history search for frugallivingandcrafting.com .

  You had the domain here at WordPress.com for a month or two, but then you pointed the domain to GoDaddy last year around April. Anything you have added since then would be in your space with GoDaddy or with any backups you downloaded.

  Please get in touch with them to see if they can help you recover your data.

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  frugallivingandcrafting · Member · Apr 19, 2017 at 7:29 pm

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  Okay, thank you!

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  supernovia · Staff · Apr 20, 2017 at 4:25 pm

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  You bet. Good luck :)