Why did buying my domain name make my blog inaccessible?

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  dbdhealth · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 2:29 pm

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  At your suggested, I just bought the domain name reliablenarratives.com — now neither it nor reliablenarratives.wordpress.com work. Help!
  Blog url: http://reliablenarratives.wordpress.com/

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  evarlese · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 2:34 pm

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  It can take a few moments before your domain mapping becomes active. When I visit reliablenarratives.com, everything is working properly for me.

  Can you try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies?

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  dbdhealth · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm

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  That worked. Thanks.

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  evarlese · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 2:54 pm

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  No problem, glad to hear it :)

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  dbdhealth · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 2:56 pm

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  Did you have to clear your cache and cookies, by the way? God, I hope the answer is no.

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  evarlese · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 3:14 pm

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  Haha, nope, everything worked properly for me the first time :) Since I haven’t visited your site before, there wasn’t a cached version.

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  dbdhealth · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm

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  So people who have visited my site before are left thinking it no longer exists, unless they happen to know to clear their cache? Is that what you’re telling me?

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  evarlese · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 3:53 pm

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  I see that you purchased the domain registration an hour ago. It may take a few moments before the domain mapping appears active on your blog as the DNS changes propagate.

  However, everything appears to be working properly now.

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  dbdhealth · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 3:55 pm

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  What I’m telling you, though, is that as soon as I bought that, neither the old reliablenarratives.wordpress.com nor reliablenarratives.com would work until I cleared my cache. I’m asking if that’s going to be the case for my readers.

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  evarlese · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 3:56 pm

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  Right. Did you go to your website immediately after purchasing the domain registration upgrade? If so, then you saw that error message because the DNS changes hadn’t yet updated.