Want to move domain from another host to WordPress.com

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  kethridge88 · Member · Sep 14, 2015 at 9:50 pm

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  I had a WordPress site hosted elsewhere. I wasn’t happy with the themes available through that host and, preferring the themes available through my current WordPress.com account, want to add the domain here and host it on WordPress.com. I cancelled the original hosting account. When I try to add the domain as a new WordPress account I get an error saying it already exists. I’ve tried changing the DNS info with the domain service provider to WordPress’s name servers. But how do I actually create the hosting on WordPress?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 14, 2015 at 9:55 pm

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  This is a wordpress.COM hosted blog http://the8thacorn.com/ on its own domain.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 14, 2015 at 9:57 pm

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  Primary Blog is Set
  the8thacorn.com is set as the primary domain for the8thacorn.wordpress.com and will appear in the address bar when you visit the site.

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  kethridge88 · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 12:12 am

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  The blog in question is reinventingkim.com I finally figured out how to add it to the8thacorn account as the primary domain. But all it did was replace the8thacorn. I can’t figure out how to actually get reinventingkim.wordpress.com active.

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  kethridge88 · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 12:01 pm

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  Yeah, duh, somebody else owns it.

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  supernovia · Staff · Sep 15, 2015 at 11:22 pm

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  @kethridge88 can you create the site using a different wordpress.com address? reinventingkim.wordpress.com is taken, but you could use something like this:
  reallyreinventingkim.wordpress.com

  Then go here: https://wordpress.com/my-upgrades and move the domain to that new site you’ve made.