$5 domain mapping?

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  tbol3 · Member · Dec 29, 2009 at 5:36 pm

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  Not an urgent question, but this has been bothering me. When you register a domain at wordpress.com, it costs $5, plus a $10 mapping fee. Do any of you know why that is? I mean, the cheapest I’ve seen domain registration outside of wordpress.com is $9 (for .com, .org, and .net domains). So why is wordpress.com able to do that? Thank you.

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  husdal · Member · Dec 29, 2009 at 5:59 pm

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  Why only $5?

  My best guess is that when buying a domain at wordpress.com, the domain management features are rather limited. In practice you can’t do much else than have the domain pointing to your wordpress.com blog.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/

  You cannot create CNAMEs or MX records or subdomains and all the other things you can at a regular registrar, where you pay $9.

  So, bottom line: you (don’t) get what you (don’t) pay for.

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  tbol3 · Member · Dec 29, 2009 at 7:47 pm

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  Ah, that could do it. Thanks, that has been bugging me for a while.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 29, 2009 at 8:11 pm

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  @husdal
  G’day. Resolved! :)

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  husdal · Member · Dec 29, 2009 at 8:34 pm

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  G’day (or rather night where I am) back @timethief

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  tellyworth · Staff · Dec 29, 2009 at 10:23 pm

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  The answer is, we lose money on the domain. It costs us more than $5.