Change to WordPress from Blue Host
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I’m trying to change from Blue Host to WordPress. It looks like somebody has reserved my name already. I’m suspecting Blue Host did it to make me got back to them. I don’t know, though. How can I get theresacrater.wordpress.com? I could do .org. Can you help?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Here it does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com URL is when you are domain mapping. Just register any .wordpress.com URL and proceed with mapping an existing domain.
WordPress.com provides free blogs and free hosting for them. WordPress.com does not accept domain name transfers but mapping to an existing domain can be done.
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.
Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually. In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from. If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.
See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing 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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How can I get theresacrater.wordpress.com?
When you have an account here WordPress.COM reserves the base blog name for you, the account is three years old, contact the account owner and ask for the blog name – for privacy reasons you are on your own – WordPress.COM will not help
the account is three years old – so not Blue Host
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/akismet-5a586208a4800cfaae803cb152295d47
But if you use domain mapping the base blog does not matter much
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
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But if you want to use theresacrater.com, you can just pay $13 and have the domain mapped to any wordpress.com account you have.
So you can have 72891yhd9.wordpress.com if you wanted, and simply have the domain mapped, so when people acccess your site, theresacrater.com, they are still served your blog.
Ash
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