Chaning the extenion of domain name

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  economakis · Member · Sep 20, 2011 at 7:52 pm

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  Is there a way of changing the domain extension say from eloudianos.com to eloudianos.gr using wordpress?

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 20, 2011 at 8:14 pm

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  Have you purchased domain mapping from eloudianos.wordpress.com to eloudianos.com or not?

  Do you own the domain eloudianos.gr or not?

  reference link: domain mapping upgrade

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  economakis · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 5:28 am

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  Thanks for your reply.

  Yes i do own eloudianos.wordpress.com, but my site is in Greek and i want it to end in eloudianos.gr. Would i have to purchase eloudianos.com through wordpress and then eloudianos.gr seperatly?

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 5:36 am

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  You would need to register eloudianos.gr with someone else other than WordPress.COM – they can’t register the .gr extension – you would then need a zone record for the name before the domain mapping could be done.

  eloudianos.com is a separate issue but it could be registered with WordPress.COM and then mapped to your existing blog.

  Both names can be mapped to the same base blog at the same time (you would need to pay for two domain mapping upgrades)

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  economakis · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 6:01 am

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  Thanks for everything guys, you have really helped me.

  Just one more thing. So lets say i have purchased the domain name eloudianos.gr and then mapped thought to eloudianos.wordpress.com, would the domain name eloudianos.wordpress.com at any time come up while the user is visiting my site? for example while the site is first loading or when the user is going from one page to another?
  excuse me for my persistence but i was reading an article that said it could seriously damage my SEO

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 6:07 am

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  Your visitors will only see eloudianos.gr unless they access something like a picture then they see something like – your- base-name.files.wordpress.com

  your old WordPress.COM URL will also work and when visitors get to your site it changes to the mapped URL.

  Click on my name and you can see what it looks like in action as I have a mapped domain name here. @timethief & @airoddyese also have mapped domains to their base blog.

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  economakis · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 6:36 am

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  Thanks for ur help, i am guessing that the pictures could be shown with some css3 tricks or some old school javascript, then there wouldnt be a need to tranfer to a new page. If i find a way around it i shall send u a message or post a reply to this topic

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 9:13 am

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  some old school javascript

  Javascript is not allowed here for security reasons.

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  economakis · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 12:19 pm

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  What about jquery?

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 2:09 pm

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  Doubt that will work either – read the link I gave you above – it shows the allowed code.