Taking over a WP site – don't see way to renew the domain

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  jpope326 · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 4:39 pm

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  I am taking over a WP site whose domain is expiring in 2 days. I have added myself as the administrator, but when I go to the “My Domains” page, the “Update Primary Domain” button is grayed out.

  I see no other ‘renew domain’ button or other way to pay. Does the person who started the site have to do this? How can that responsibility be transferred to me?

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 4:46 pm

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  Every blog has a sole owner and it is the person with the username account who registered the blog under that username account and associated email address.

  You need to contact the blog’s owner and have her/him act on this by transferring the blog and.or upgrades. Here are the steps for transferring the blog ownership.

  You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchased upgrades to renew them or transfer the blogs and the upgrades to another username account.

  To transfer a blog from one username account A to another username account B you must first log in under the username account A that owns the blog you want to transfer to the other username account.

  Then you add the other username account B as an Admin of the blog.
  adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
  user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  Then you A can use this process to transfer the blog to that username account B instead http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

  For transferring upgrades note http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/#transferring-upgrades