changing from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. What happen with the url?

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  delacruzimages · Member · Aug 6, 2013 at 12:09 am

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  Hi,

  First time using this service. Sorry for my lack of knowledge.

  I am using right now a wordpress.com blog (delacruzimages.wordpress.com) but I am planing to start a new one with wordpress.org. I would like to keep this url name for the new blog, Is that possible?. Do I have to change the name within the new Blog?.

  What options do I have?

  I will also import my old post into the new blog. I’ve seen many threads on this topic so I will check them first.

  Thank you very much for your support.

  Best regards,

  Raúl.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Aug 12, 2013 at 7:08 pm

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  Hi there, it’s not possible to have a WordPress.com address for a self-hosted site – self-hosted sites require your own domain name. If you’d like your WordPress.com address to redirect to your new self-hosted site automatically, you can purchase a Site Redirect so that any visitors to delacruzimages.wordpress.com will reach your new self-hosted site and you won’t lose any traffic. You can also request that we transfer any subscribers and followers to your new self-hosted site if you install the Jetpack plugin.

  Just let me know if you have any other questions.