Mistakenly deleted the WP.com site, to which equinoxpdx.com is mapped…help!!

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  skellermwd1 · Member · Jan 5, 2015 at 9:17 pm

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  I had two listings on the My Sites roster, for the same site, but one was the wordpress.com backend to a domain registered through a domain registrar (1and1). I wanted to delete the one that showed no signs of activity, per the Stats sheet, not knowing that would take down my “equinoxacupunctureandmassage.wordpress.com” backend.

  I am rebuilding the site on another WP.com site, and I need to change the DNS and nameservers connections.

  What should I do…deal with the domain registrar for remapping to equinoxpdx.wordpress.com, or is that done through WP.com?

  Thanks!!

  Steve

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

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 7, 2015 at 4:41 pm

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  If you are building a self-hosted WordPress site, you should just change the nameservers at your registrar to point to your new webhost. There is no need to access WordPress.com for anything.

  If you are making a new WordPress.com site and you want this domain to point to it, you don’t need to change nameservers, but you do need to let me know the URL of the new WordPress.com site. I can make the switch for you.

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  skellermwd1 · Member · Jan 7, 2015 at 8:05 pm

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  Oh man…thank you! How funny…I posted the same question twice, and got a response to the other, but then it went quiet. I did not get an email alerting me to your response, so I am glad I checked.

  Here is where we were at on the other thread…

  auxclass
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  Jan 5, 2015, 6:13 PM

  If you deleted the site with the domain mapping you probably deleted the access to the domain mapping settings – the staff can move the mapping to another site for you

  to help the staff, using small clear words exactly what do you want moved from what blog to the new blog

  I have flagged this for staff attention

  skellermwd1
  Member
  Jan 5, 2015, 6:46 PM

  Thank you for the encouraging response! I rebuilt/replaced the wordpress.com site that was deleted (equinoxacupunctureandmassage.wordpress.com), and the new url is equinoxpdx.wordpress.com.

  The equinoxpdx.com domain was attached to equinoxacupunctureandmassage.wordpress.com, and equinoxpdx.com now pulls up an error message,

  “equinoxacupunctureandmassage.wordpress.com is no longer available.
  The authors have deleted this site.”

  I just need equinoxpdx.com mapped to equinoxpdx.wordpress.com, but I am curious if, next time I screw up, the upgrade feature can be the solution?? Here is what I see…

  Domain: equinoxpdx.com
  Domain Mapped to WordPress.com
  Status: Active, Manual Renewal

  DNS is correct
  Cancel
  Transfer to another site

  Thanks, Root Josh!!

  Steve

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 8, 2015 at 5:09 am

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  equinoxpdx.com is now mapped to equinoxpdx.wordpress.com.

  Let me know if it’s working correctly for you.

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  skellermwd1 · Member · Jan 9, 2015 at 3:50 am

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  Thanks so much!

  Best,

  Steve

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 9, 2015 at 4:48 pm

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  Happy to help.