use domain name for new blog
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I bought a new domain name for a new blog, but I did it out of my account for my other blog on WordPress. Oops. What I want are two separate blogs with two names. Now when I go in to set up the new blog, it tells me that domain name is already taken. Should I delete the new domain name and start all over? Isn’t there some way to get from here to two separate blogs? Thanks.
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Hello! You definitely don’t want to delete the domain and start all over again. Reason being is that when you cancel a domain, it might be difficult, or even impossible, to renew.
You can transfer it to your other blog by going to My Upgrades: https://wordpress.com/my-upgrades
Click ‘Transfer to Another Site’ for the domain you wish to transfer :)
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My apologies, just realized that it seems you registered the new domain under a different WP.com account, is that right?
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Yes, that is right. So should I go into the “start a new blog” thing or should I do the “transfer to a new site” first?
Thank you so much!!!
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Depends on what you want to do. If you want to use the domain you just registered on the existing blog on your other WP.com account, then you would want to contact Support to have them transfer the domain to your other account. Since you have a paid upgrade, you can use the contact form: https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
If you are creating a brand new blog to use with the domain you just bought, you can start a new blog from within the same account that you bought the domain on, and then transfer that domain to the new site :)
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Thanks–I created the new blog with a free domain name, then transferred the domain to the new site. So I think it worked just fine. :-)
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