Not able to change site extension

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  sauravpeace · Member · Oct 12, 2020 at 5:48 pm

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  I have created a new blog page for our School. At present it is showing https://apsuttarkashi.school.blog/ and I am not able to change its extension to wordpress.com. What should I do?

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 12, 2020 at 10:42 pm

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  Hi @sauravpeace, what’s happening when you try to change the name?

  Please note too, if you change it you won’t get the school.blog address back.

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  sauravpeace · Member · Oct 13, 2020 at 3:34 pm

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  It is not changing. The “Change Site Address” is not active too. Is this “apsuttarkashi.school.blog” a paid domain?

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  darciemg · Staff · Oct 13, 2020 at 4:06 pm

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  When you change the .school.blog drop down to .wordpress.com, you’ll need to type “apsuttarkashi” into the box again to activate the “Change site address” button. This allows the system to check that the new site address is available.

  apsuttarkashi.school.blog isn’t a paid custom domain, it’s one of the newer .blog subdomains that WordPress.com offers. https://wordpress.com/blog/2018/11/28/announcing-free-dotblog-subdomains/

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  sauravpeace · Member · Oct 13, 2020 at 4:22 pm

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  Thank you very much. This is working. I have followed your instructions.