Okay, crap! I just read the Yahoo! article on ‘redelegating‘ (not transferring) my paid ‘domain name’ with Automattic, Inc. via WordPress.COM a few minutes. From that article I did step one on Thursday, 09/25/2008 and expected step four on Sunday, 09/28/2008. I didn’t realize that I should have done steps two and three.
So I logged into my WordPress.COM account, clicked on the ‘Help’ link to `faq.wordpress.com` and searched for domain name. I found the article ‘Domain Mapping‘ to be useful. The steps were easy to follow: change my password (via Settings > Domain), click on the ‘Manage Your Domains’ link at the bottom of this page, log in with my ‘Customer Number’ and new password, set the Nameservers for two required fields (Nameserver 1: * and Nameserver 2: *) based on the Yahoo! article and unlock my work.
Then I’ll have to wait up to 48 hours for the domain name to propagate through the internet! At least, I’ve created my beautiful new static pages of cream and green colors for orgone (or orgonite) resources. The only booger with the ‘Site Solution’ building tool was not being able to override the ‘PayPal’ button to read ‘Donation’ instead of ‘Buy Now’. I’m not happy again!
At least there is a link from the ‘Home’ page points back to my blogs here at WordPress.COM. I’m still anxious on the ‘administration panel’ will look like and feel. Hopefully, I could be happy with the Yahoo! template and keep the blog separate; otherwise I could always start over and ‘Make my blog [from WordPress.COM] my home page.’
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