Urgent help required! My domain being shown parked!

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  wp365wp · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 3:35 pm

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  I was attempting to move my domain hindizen.com (registered through WordPress.com) to my hosting account at GoDaddy. I updated nameservers and A record. I installed WordPress software and tried to upload XML file but got many errors so I reverted everything.

  I restored the nameservers back to WordPress.com defaults and deleted the A record. Then I reset my hosting account hoping that my blog would be okay at WordPress.com. I’ve done it earlier with my other blogs so I was sure that nothing would go wrong.

  Now when I’m trying to open my website hindizen.com, I’m seeing the page that “hindizen.com This page is parked free, courtesy of WordPress.com”

  I’re rechecked it again. My domain is still with me and all values are at WordPress.com defaults.

  Please help.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 3:52 pm

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  http://hindizen.com/ – loads fine to a WordPress.COM site for me – you probably have a local caching issue – try clearing your cache & forcing a page reload

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  wp365wp · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 3:55 pm

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  Yes, it’s back to normal but I wonder what caused a “parked domain” page..

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 4:55 pm

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  Take a bit of time for changes to get updated and you could have had local caching issues either on your PC or your ISP

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 19, 2015 at 6:26 pm

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  That happens when you change both the nameservers AND the A record.

  You need to do one or the other, not both. If you use an A record, the nameservers have to be WordPress.com nameservers. If you use GD nameservers, you do not need an A record.

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  wp365wp · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 3:11 am

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  I repeated the steps again and changed only the nameservers. After installing WordPress I’m not able to get to hindizen.com/wp-admin page. I’m getting the following error in Chrome:

  “The server at hindzen.com can’t be found because the DNS look-up failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website’s name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.”

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  wp365wp · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 3:43 am

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  the page hindizen.com/wp-admin is again opening with the following message:

  “This page is parked free, courtesy of WordPress.com”

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 9:54 pm

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  Hi there! We have a guide for setting up a domain registered here with GoDaddy:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/change-name-servers/point-a-wordpress-com-domain-to-godaddy/

  Please follow those steps to get your domain set up correctly. Any DNS changes can take up to 72 hours to take effect. Please be patient and let me know if you have any more trouble.