I really screwed up setting up a domain I already have and transferring it to micro.blog

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Okay.

Here’s what I did.

I initially signed up on micro.blog as gdi.micro.blog.

Then I got a domain name from another hosting service, dynadot: grimmdrewit dot com.

Then I transferred grimmdrewit dot com over to gdi.micro.blog, but I couldn’t figure out how to completely point it to my site.

while fiddling around with A and CNAME, I realized I had registered grimmdrewit dot com to gdi.micro.blog. That’s not what I wanted. Can I rename gdi.blog?

It didn’t seem that I could rename a micro.blog account blog, so I made a new one: grimmdrewit.micro.blog.

Then I deleted gdi.micro.blog, before I had transferred the domain I wanted, grimmdrewit dot com, over to grimmdrewit.micro.blog.

Oops. Dangit, I shouldn’t have done that. It had warned me and everything, I just wanted to see if I could fix this error on my own without paying another $25 dollars or asking a stranger for help because the internet and micro.blog help page wasn’t giving more clues. Next time, ask a stranger for help. :frowning:

Now I can’t access the page where I could unlock grimmdrewit dot com, get an auth pass, and spend another $25 dollars to transfer it to the micro.blog account I want it to work with. (grimmdrewit.micro.blog.)

I’m way out of my depth. Pointing a domain name to a site is, in and of itself is already a process I barely understand at this stage of learning, and every time I do get it right I feel like I just got lucky with wherever I copied and pasted the numbers. I know I’ve really, really messed up this process.

I really hope I haven’t messed this up forever, I was so happy to find a .com domain name that’s correct for me. Help?

Graham

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If you want the blog grimmdrewit.micro.blog to use your custom domain name grimmdrewit.com, go to the Blog Settings page, enter grimmdrewit.com in the Domain name field, and the press the Update Settings button.

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ahahaha tysm

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And I am back, oh no!

So, I did my homework this time, read what I could find on the help forum to make sure there wasn’t an identical issue.

My issue is this: when I go here, to access DNS so I can, for example, point back to my main website from another site:

example1
example11193×291 22.9 KB

When I click on “View records”, I see this:

example2
example2812×177 20.3 KB

I understand that transfer from one registrar to another can take up to 8 days, so I waited to see if name.com would email me. My other registrar messaged me to let me know of the transfer, but name.com has not gotten back yet.

I’m still embarrassed with myself for not getting a screenshot of my DNS records before transferring.

Is this going to make it difficult to set up an email with my domain?

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This is probably something @manton needs to take a look at. If he doesn’t show up here, feel free to email help@micro.blog, and I’ll make sure it gets assigned to him.

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Thanks y’all, we’re following up in email and will get it resolved.