Can I change the name of my website?

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  carriesuepepper · Member · May 20, 2013 at 10:50 pm

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  I set my wordpress blog up as carriesuepepper.com but wish to change it. Can I do this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  carriesuepepper · Member · May 20, 2013 at 10:53 pm

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  I would like to change the name of the blog from carriesuepepper.wordpress.com to

  vicky’sgroveandarboriculture

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  timethief · Member · May 20, 2013 at 10:53 pm

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  There is no domain mapping upgrade for carriesuepepper.com. If you would like to use this domain you will first need to set up domain mapping. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  After you make the domain mapping purchase here > Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades and do the set up 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. Note that it’s quite common for your own ISP to be last one to flush their DNS caches.

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  timethief · Member · May 20, 2013 at 10:54 pm

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  Oh, I see what you want to do now is chnage the site title.

  Site titles (Blog Names) and optional Taglines located here > Settings > General can easily be changed at any time.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 20, 2013 at 11:14 pm

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  You won’t be able to use the apostrophe in the URL. You can use it in the Title field on the Settings->General page, but not in the URL.

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  timethief · Member · May 20, 2013 at 11:17 pm

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  @raincoaster
  Thanks. :)