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  1. susannemoore
    Member

    Hi, I registered a new domain name through my wordpress dashboard today and it doesn't seem to be working. I did this process with another blog on the weekend and it was readily immediately but this time not. My wordpress blog is http://www.changingwomen.wordpress.com and I have just paid for the new name http://www.changingwomen.org through the wordpress register domain process. Everything looks ok in the dashboard and I have made it the primary domain, what have I forgotten? Or does it take a little while and I was just lucky before?

    thanks

    The blog I need help with is susannemoore.wordpress.com.

  2. auxclass
    Member

    Patience Grasshopper - it can take 24 to 72 hours for all the changes to migrate across the internet.

    You we lucky the first time.

  3. susannemoore
    Member

    thanks so much! Whew! I thought I had done something badly wrong. It is always nerve racking when registering a new domain, especially for people like me who are such bad spellers.

    All good now - its working! Thanks for getting to me so quickly wordpress!

  4. manumitre
    Member

    I'm having the same problem, but I can't keep my blog off for 72 hours... should I keep my wordpress.com domain as primary and wait a couple of days before I try that?

  5. raincoaster
    Member

    No, that doesn't make any difference. It's always best to make big changes during low traffic periods, so wait till the weekend. Sundays are particularly quiet.

  6. manumitre
    Member

    But, raincoaster, my primary domain is set to http://casadaidea.wordpress.com, but if you type my new domain http://casadaidea.com.br, it isn't being redirected to the wordpress. Shouldn't that be working?
    And at the register of the new domain everything seems ok...

  7. raincoaster
    Member

    It works fine. It is working exactly as expected. Yes, it is being redirected to WP.com. WAIT.

  8. manumitre
    Member

    Do I have to do anything else to update my RSS readers' link?

  9. manumitre
    Member

    It's working!! Thanks guys!
    Now is there something I have to do so that my Google Reader's subscribers keep track of the future posts?

  10. raincoaster
    Member

    No, they will continue to recieve your blog because whatever.wordpress.com stays active. You have TWO URLs now, and both work, so people can subscribe to either feed.

  11. manumitre
    Member

    Wonderful! Thank you very much!

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