Our Domain is with WordPress?

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  salessiteoptimized · Member · Apr 23, 2019 at 12:33 am

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  The website for our town’s community gathering space was being managed by a woman who passed away suddenly. We reached out to who we thought was the registrar but they said that it is all through WordPress including control of the name servers etc for the domain name. Is that possible? How does that work?

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  gamedreamer · Member · Apr 23, 2019 at 3:14 am

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  Hey there, good evening!

  Every site comes with a free address with .wordpress.com in the URL, it is automatically assigned at no charge and it includes hosting, DNS, nameservers etc. handled on the back-end by WordPress. If this is the case with your blog then you would need to be able to login to the WordPress account the blog was created and being managed from.

  Does the URL for the blog look like “example.wordpress.com” or does it look like an address without “.wordpress” in it?

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  salessiteoptimized · Member · Apr 23, 2019 at 1:57 pm

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  No, actually it is http://www.rosenspace.com without WordPress.

  Thank you for your help BTW.

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  themagicrobot · Member · Apr 23, 2019 at 2:12 pm

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  That site is hosted here at WordPress.com. I think the first step would be to reach out via the information provided at: https://en.support.wordpress.com/deceased-user/ although that does lean towards relatives more than organisations.