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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    You need to contact your domain name providers, WordPress.org doesn’t provide a domain name service.

    Thread Starter sheepsheepba

    (@sheepsheepba)

    I don’t even know who that is! I know it’s a .co.uk domain (no wordpress in the title) but I can’t access the account at all so I have no way of finding out anything like that. I didn’t personally sign up to any domain name provider – I literally just made a WordPress.org account, and as I had this empty website open, it seemed to assume that I was making it in order to take that .co.uk website. Aaaaaaaaaah.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Try this service to find out who are your domain name providers: https://who.is/

    Thread Starter sheepsheepba

    (@sheepsheepba)

    OK – I’ve found out who the domain name provider is. Will they be able to delete my account? This is absolutely not fair on the people who actually own this domain, and it seems kind of terrible that a WordPress error exists that allows anyone else to claim it.

    This has nothing to do with WordPress.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    WordPress is just a piece of software. You cannot “take” a domain away from somebody using it. You can’t create a blog on WordPress.org either.

    What you’re describing basically makes no sense at all. Things don’t work that way.

    So you need to describe what you’re saying in more detail. Why do you think that you now own a domain? Did you pay for it somehow? If not, then I guarantee you, you do not own a domain name. 🙂

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