Detach a Domain From a Site

You may wish to own a domain in your WordPress.com account but not have it associated with a particular website. This is often referred to across the web as “parking” a domain. This guide will walk you through how to detach a domain from your website so that a ‘parking page’ appears instead.

In this guide

1. Detach/Remove a Domain from a Website
2. Attach a Domain to a Website

Detach/Remove a Domain from a Website

To detach a domain from your WordPress.com website:

1. Visit your site’s dashboard.
2. On the side, navigate to Upgrades → Domains (or Hosting → Domains if using WP-Admin).
3. Click on the domain you want to detach from your website.
4. At the bottom of the right sidebar, click the button labeled “Detach“.
5. On the confirmation box, click on the button labeled “Detach“.
6. A banner will appear, confirming that the domain will be detached from your site in a few minutes.

While the domain is disconnected, you can still take the usual actions on your domain including:

• Add Professional Email.
• Transfer the domain to another account or registrar.
• Modify the DNS records.

Visit the All Domains page to access your disconnected domain’s settings.

Detach a domain from the website.

Visiting the domain will show a parking page instead of the website:

Attach a Domain to a Website

To attach a disconnected domain to any website in your WordPress.com account:

1. Visit your global dashboard at https://wordpress.com/sites.
2. On the side, select “Domains“.
3. Click on the domain you want to attach to a website.
4. From the “Create a WordPress.com site” section at the top, you can attach your domain to one of your existing WordPress.com sites or a new site:
   • Click the button labeled “Add a new site” to create a new site with its own plan subscription to use with the domain.
   • Click the button labeled “Attach to an existing site” to select and link the domain to a site on which you are an administrator.

Attach a domain to a website.