WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Domain name not working http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-name-not-working-5 WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Domain name not working en Sat, 25 May 2013 03:34:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 kathrynwp on "Domain name not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-name-not-working-5#post-1092468 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:43:42 +0000 kathrynwp 1092468@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Glad you got this sorted out. If you need anything else, feel free to post again.

]]> khennessey on "Domain name not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-name-not-working-5#post-1092340 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:31:35 +0000 khennessey 1092340@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Never mind, I just needed to wait for the new nameserver information to propagate.

-kbh

]]> khennessey on "Domain name not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-name-not-working-5#post-1091837 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:51:53 +0000 khennessey 1091837@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm moving my blog from self-hosted on DreamHost to WP.com. I'm having trouble getting my domain name to point to my WP.com blog. I was also using CloudFlare, which was, I think, intercepting the domain name stuff at DreamHost.

I successfully transferred my domain, keithhennessey.com, from DreamHost to NameCheap.com.

I followed your instructions to set the Custom Namservers at NameCheap to NS1.WORDPRESS.COM, NS2.WORDPRESS.COM, and NS3.WORDPRESS.COM.

I followed your instructions to add my custom domain name, keithhennessey.com, to my WordPress.com dashboard, and I set it as primary.

I have not added any custom DNS records through the WordPress.com dashboard.

Up to this point, when I visited keithhennessey.com in my browser, it was still going to the blog hosted on DreamHost.

I then paused CloudFlare and deleted all of the DNS settings that were previously in my CloudFlare account.

Now when I visit keithhennessey.com, Chrome gives me a "could not find keithhennessey.com" message.

I think that means that I have successfully disconnected my domain name from DreamHost and CloudFlare. But for some reason it is not now connected to my new blog at WordPress.com, and I would very much like it to be.

Trying to visit that blog through the old URL, keithhennessey.wordpress.com, gets redirected to keithhennessey.com, and then shows the same error message.

But I can still see my control panel at keithhennessey.wordpress.com/wp-admin/.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

-kbh

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