Changing Domain Name to Name Already Owned
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Hello!
Right now my blog is fordogloversonly.wordpress.com, however,my husband owns the domain name fordogloversonly.com and is not using it. Is there any way I can use fordogloversonly.com as the domain name for the blog? He has no problem with it.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Yes you can use it. :)Please read Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible.
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.
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 and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL. 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.
If you own a domain then 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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It means that when they click this URLs for http://fordogloversonly.wordpress.com/ anywhere online they will be seamlessly transferred to the same content at http://fordogloversonly.com
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Here’s the easiest way to do it and it doesn’t cost a penny. Have your husbands domain forward to your wordpress website. I do this with one of my websites and it’s easy to do.
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Yes forwarding is free and easy but it is not reliable and there is no Staff support for it when anything goes wrong. That’s why we Volunteers do not recommend forwarding.
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If I do the mapping through WordPress, what happens when someone searches for fordogloversonly.com as opposed to looking for fordogloversonly.wordpress.com, or they click on the URL fordogloversonly.com?
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There is no indexed content for http://fordogloversonly.com as yet.
There is indexed content for site:fordogloversonly.wordpress.com
Once domain mapping is in place the search engines will reindex the content under the new URL. Then all
fordogloversonly.wordpress.com links
or fordogloversonly.com links
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