Trying to add a new domain to my blog

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  paulinesguesthouse · Member · Sep 7, 2013 at 3:00 am

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  Hello,
  I own paulinesguesthouse.NET and I am trying to add to my blog the domain paulinesguesthouse.COM. The whois says that thebdomain is available since mid august but when I go through your page (https://paulinesguesthouse.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains), I’m told that the domain is not available.
  For your information, paulinesguesthouse.COM use to belong to me through over-blog. As I did not renew with them 2 years ago, they did not let the domain name go thats why i have paulinesguesthouse.NET with you.
  Thanks in advance for your help,
  Pauline

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  eurello · Staff · Sep 8, 2013 at 4:22 pm

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  Hi there – when I do a WhoIs lookup on paulinesguesthouse.com it says it’s registered though GANDI SAS:
  http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=paulinesguesthouse.COM

  It looks like it expired in August, but it’s either still in redemption or someone already purchased it at auction while it was in redemption. The current status is “clientHold” which typically means it’s expired and still in redemption. You can see the registrant information — is this you?:
  http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=paulinesguesthouse.COM

  If so, please contact GANDI SAS as soon as possible to see if it’s still possible to restore the domain to your account.

  Then, you can map it to your WordPress.com blog from there.