Want to use my domain name but WP says blog already exists
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Hi all, Help please, staring a new blog with an old name, and I;’m trying to use my longtime domain street-trip or streettrip (WP doesn’t like hyphens) and can’t get WP.com to accept either of them when I use the form to change from the default URL “theswitchison”. Back story: I had http://www.street-trip on Posterous until 2013 when Posterous went defunct. Is that the issue, even two years later? Or, another possibility, I had street-trip hosted on Dreamhost/WP for the last 24 hrs, but decided it was too complicated and now want to use WP.com directly. I disabled the hosting at Dreamhost. I checked with Dreamhost and they have definitely disabled it. Is it a different domain because it had a hyphen? Do I have to register that one too? But, that’s not what it’s saying, it’s saying the blog already exists. Really want to get up and running. Thanks for any guidance…
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Update, I may have fixed it by buying Premium and changing my nameservers at Dreamhost. Looks like I can use the domain now. Guess I had to pay for being able to use it here.
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Yes, we do have to purchase an annually renewable upgrade to map to an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
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