Change domain name

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  jalisaxwright · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 1:25 am

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  To whom it may concern,

  I want to change the domain I registered my account with. Is it possible to do this without paying for a domain name?

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 1:52 am

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  Depends if you want to change it to a whatever.com or .org or .net or .me, or if you just want to change it to another whatever.wordpress.com URL. The former costs money. The latter does not. http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

  Note that this is, bar none, the thing people complain about most. You lose ALL search engine ranking, many people report losing all their followers, and you can never, ever go back to the old URL. That’s why I generally recommend just setting up a new blog entirely. That way you still have the old one, although you can set it to Private if you want.

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  jalisaxwright · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 2:06 am

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  I want to change to another xyz.wordpress.com which I plan to buy later.

  I’m not concerned about losing followers etc. because I don’t have any lol

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 2:53 am

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  Okay, then I gave you the link.

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  jalisaxwright · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 3:00 am

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  Yes, thank you