Transferring My Domain
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How do I transfer my sight if there is no ‘Edit’ button next to my domain? I went to my domains, and there is only one, that lists it never expires. There is not option to edit the domain. How do I transfer the domain in this case?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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What exactly are you trying to transfer and where are you trying to transfer it to?
The top level domain here is wordpress.com and all WordPress hosted blogs are on .wordpress.com sub-domians like http://lifestyleeye.wordpress.com/
Are you trying to move your content to another site?
See here for that http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/ -
lifestyleeye.com is hosted by DreamHost and not by WordPress.COM
Name Servers:
ns1.dreamhost.com
ns2.dreamhost.com
ns3.dreamhost.comIf you would like to map to a domain that you own from your wordpress.COM blog you will first need to set up domain mapping.
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made it and the domain mapping purchase here every year.
Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually. In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is.It does not have to match the domain URL.
If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.
Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
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 to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.
If you own a domain then see here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.
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I am trying to use my domain (lifestyleeye.com) for our new website built through wix.com
I have a primary domain lifestyleeye.wordpress.com
And I am logged in as admin…
In the support section it does give instructions to transfer – but you are saying that that is not allowed?
Would it be possible to just remove the domain from wordpress so that I can use it with a different host? -
Hi there,
The domain lifestyleeye.com isn’t registered or hosted here at WordPress.com. You have a WordPress.com site at the address lifestyleeye.wordpress.com, but that’s not connected in any way to the domain lifestyleeye.com.
You can see the publicly available information about that domain here:
http://who.is/whois/lifestyleeye.com
According to those details, the domain lifestyleeye.com is registered at GoDaddy. You’ll need to log in to GoDaddy or contact GoDaddy support to use that domain with another host like Wix or transfer it to a new registrar.
Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)
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