Australian target audience – needs domain extension .com.au
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Why doesn’t WordPress offer .com.au as a domain?
My target audience is in Australia, and apparently this domain extension is the best way to do it.
However the only way I can seem to do it, is to register elsewhere for around $20, and then WordPress charges me $17, to link that external domain registration which has been purchased.
I would like to keep all my accounts/registrations within the one website if possible.
Thanks
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You can purchase a .com.au from a registrar and then mapping to an existing blog.
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made it and the domain mapping purchase here every year.
Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually and a domain name purchase and domain mapping are included in the Premium ujpgrade bundle.
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL.
If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the WordPress.COM blog, and as you own a domain URL already, you can see here for mapping an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
It can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.
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