Domain transfer BACK to wordpress

  • oeurek

    (@oeurek)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    When on my desktop, I cannot access one of my sites. I built the site for my personal portfolio but over time I needed to cut things out of the spending habits and my domain name was that. I deleted my GoDaddy account before I thought about this page. When I went to change the domain BACK to a normal blah.wordpress.com address, I can’t even see the site to make the change. Now when I am on my phone I can see the site but cannot edit it.. I have gone back and forth with WordPress.com support but they keep telling me it is a WordPress.org issue. But I have never downloaded wordpress.org (unless thats the app) and I always use my wordpress.com login on my computer for my other sites.

    Any one have this issue and can help?? It is my portfolio that I would like to keep for future job interviews.

    Thanks

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    The domain is under the control of GoDaddy…

    The website appears to have possibly been a commercially hosted site – NOT at WordPress dot Com.

    So maybe you might contact GoDaddy to see what they can do to help. Since the domain was registered there it may have been hosted there.

    Else, you can cut and copy the text from the Wayback Machine’s archive and use that to rebuild.

    Joshua Goode

    (@verygoode)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @oeurek,

    I needed to cut things out of the spending habits and my domain name was that. I deleted my GoDaddy account before I thought about this page. When I went to change the domain BACK to a normal blah.wordpress.com address.

    It is likely that you had set up what is called a self-hosted version of WordPress with GoDaddy and not a site on WordPress.com’s hosting platform.

    Based on the historical DNS records for your domain, it was never attached to a WordPress.com website and was always pointed to GoDaddy’s servers: https://securitytrails.com/domain/oliviaeurek.com/history/a

    But I have never downloaded wordpress.org (unless thats the app) and I always use my wordpress.com login on my computer for my other sites.

    Using the Jetpack plugin, you may have attached oliviaeurek.com to your WordPress.com account. That would explain why you would see it, alongside any .wordpress.com sites you have, when you logged into WordPress.com.

    To restore and reconnect oliviaeurek.com, WordPress.com’s support will not be able to help as it was hosted with GoDaddy. You will need to work with GoDaddy to restore the hosting and the domain if possible.

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