NOT MY WEBSITE???
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Gidday folks,
I haven’t been on wordpress for yonks due to unforeseen circumstances and am now back on the wagon.. the only problem is my domain name has expired and when I go back to the original pugloverblog.wordpress.com it takes me to some website that is not mine?!?! How do I get my blog back?
Thanks,
Pugs aka BexThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you domain name has expired and someone else purchased it then you do have a problem. If it’s not yet been purchased Staff may be able to help. Please complete a support ticket with all relevant information. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
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Really? I receive renewal notices two months in advance of my domains expiring so I assume you did as well. If I were you I wouldn’t be posting here I would be contacting Staff ASAP.
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I understand andrew, my apologies andrew just got excited about the blogging thing all of a sudden. The main reason I love wordpress is because of the support of the forum!! Silly me for not updating my domain!! Had no idea that this would happen!
Also, is it possible for me to start a second blog on the same account?Thanks,
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I understand the rush, glad to see you’re excited about blogging! :)
You can add a second (or as many as you like) blog to your account by logging into WordPress.com and visiting:
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We can have as many free free hosted blogs as we wish. You can point your browser to http://wordpress.com/signup to register your new blog.
P.S. If you do a whois search for the domain you will probably find that it’s up for auction.
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@timethief, I had wrongfully assumed that not renewing my domain would mean that puglover.org would just fall back to the original pugloverblog.wordpress.com
I had not thought my blog was flash enough to be worth the renewal of the domain but maybe I would have if I knew that this was going to happen. =[
I just contacted support now, so I’ll see what they have to say….
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Best wishes for a happy outcome but do be aware that there are those who wait like vultures to snap up domains.
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on what’s worse is that the new site has nothing to do with pug dogs!! what do drugs have to do with it?!
argh.cheers to a new blog.
i see you write about how to make funky blogs timethief, your site could come in handy!
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@bugloverblog your old URL http://pugloverblog.wordpress.com/ is active again – not sure if you or a staff member fixed it.
When a domain name expires your old URL is still active, but your domain mapping subscription was still active. It was still happily redirecting the old URL to the “new” domain, because it has no way to know if that domain has expired.
It’s common practice for bad guys to snap up expired domains and fill them with ads (or worse).
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@tellyworth
=S i must have a staff member on my side, either that or i did it without realizing.. but i still cannot see it, it is just taking me to some dashboard type screen..?
Heh, those bad guys.. yeah, I suppose it could be worse.. at least it didn’t turn into some porno site or something!
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