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  imc2019 · Member · Sep 25, 2019 at 3:20 pm

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  I just started and we are a non profit. We have a domain with an active website that is hosted somewhere else. I would like to build the new site here and then host here using the same domain name. I am at the step in your service that only gives me two choices – new domain or move my domain. I do not want to do either until I build the site. please advise

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Sep 25, 2019 at 3:43 pm

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  Hi there,

  That is not an issue – what you could do is create a site with a free WordPress.com blog address. You are assigned a .wordpress.com or a .home.blog subdomain whenever you create a site with WordPress.com, so you can just use that as the domain as you build the site and determine whether or not this is the platform you want to use. Once you are developing the site, you can make the decision to transfer the domain over:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/incoming-domain-transfer/

  map and existing domain:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

  Or even creating a new one:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/register-domain/

  Hope this helps,