Adding externally owned Domain to WordPress.com site

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    surreallovers · Member ·

    I’m on your Domains Support page here https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/ and I see it says

    •Adding a domain to your site (either registering a new domain or mapping one you already own) requires a WordPress.com plan. Each plan comes with one free domain credit. However, you can setup additional domains on the same site as add-on upgrades.
    •Registering additional domains through WordPress.com starts at $18.00 per domain, per year (see below for a list of all the domains we currently offer).

    I’m confused. I’ve owned domains via GoDaddy in the past and mapped by the Domain URL to my WordPress.com site for around $15/year … now it appears I need a $99/year premium plan to do this for a new site I’m building?

    Can you please let me know what the current situation is on this?

    Thanks,
    Michael
    surreallovers.wordpress.com

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    gemmacevans · Member ·

    Hi Michael,

    I’ve owned domains via GoDaddy in the past and mapped by the Domain URL to my WordPress.com site for around $15/year

    It was previously possible to add a domain mapping as a stand-alone upgrade, but that was changed last year. It is now only possible to add mapping as part of a plan.

    However, you don’t need to use the Premium Plan. You can also add a domain mapping as part of the Personal Plan. Add the Personal plan to your cart before the domain orP Premium will be selected automatically.

    Once you have an active plan, you can map additional domains for $13 or register additional domains for $18 per year.

    Come back to me if you have any questions.

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