Can you transfer a domain name to a wordpress site?

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  justaunigirl · Member · Sep 5, 2015 at 9:45 am

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  I have a website hosted with Freeola, looking to transfer to WordPress, is there a way I can transfer the domain to this new site?
  http://www.barevents.co.uk

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  lubmir2k · Member · Sep 5, 2015 at 9:54 am

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  Hi there,

  if you’re going to have a website on WordPress.com, you can keep the old domain name using Domain Mapping.

  More informations here:

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

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Sep 5, 2015 at 10:33 am

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  @justaunigirl

  WordPress.com doesn’t accept incoming domain transfers. So you will have to keep the domain at your previous host and map it to your WordPress.com blog using the instructions in the support document provided by mrlubomir.

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  lubmir2k · Member · Sep 6, 2015 at 1:44 pm

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  staff-happychia

  what’s an incoming domain tranfer? Take a domain from the other registrar for using here?

  Just curious, thanks for the reply.

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Sep 6, 2015 at 6:46 pm

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  @mrlubomir

  Incoming domain transfer means, transferring the domain purchased from other registrar to WordPress.com. This is not allowed on WordPress.com hence the domain mapping. When we map a domain, the domain is still at the registrar from whom it was purchased but is now is pointing to WordPress.com blog.