switch my site from self-hosted wp to .com wp

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  nlhills · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 5:47 pm

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  I no longer want http://www.anotherchanceokanagan.com as a self-hosted site. I’ve moved the files (though at this point the original site is still up) to “anotherchanceokanagan.wordpress.com” — but I want to rename the new site with the old domain name (without “wordpress” in it). My annual payment renewal for the old site is coming up, and of course I want to close that — I have it hosted under Bluehost — and just want to make the $18 annual payment for the new site. How do I cancel the old registration, and make sure that my new site has the same domain name?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 13, 2015 at 12:54 am

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  Your best bet is to not cancel your existing registration and instead just use Domain Mapping to point your domain to your WordPress.com site.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Canceling a domain registration is a risky move that can easily result in your losing control over the domain and not ever being able to regain it.

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  nlhills · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 6:18 pm

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  Thank you. I took your advice! It’s working :-)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 13, 2015 at 7:18 pm

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  Great to hear!

  Happy to help.