Check for domain before purchasing plan

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    lykpham · Member ·

    Hello! I mainly want to purchase a Personal plan for my account because I would like the domain. However, I see that ‘premium’ domains do not come with the plan. Is there a way for me to check if the domain I would like is a ‘premium’ domain, or if it is one that qualifies for the Personal plan? Thank you!

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    timethief · Member ·

    I do not understand you because with any Personal, Premium or Business plan you do get a custom domain. https://wordpress.com/pricing/

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    timethief · Member ·

    WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/

    We have 4 different plans: free, personal, premium and business. All hosting is free regardless of which plan you choose. You can view all wordpress.com plan features here https://wordpress.com/pricing/

    How domain mapping works
    Registering an underlying .wordpress.com URL first is required for domain mapping. That underlying URL does not have to match the domain URL when you are domain mapping.

    What domain mapping does is providing a seamless redirect to the very same content under the new domain URL when a person clicks the old URL .wordpress.com to the original content. It can take up to 72 hours for domain propagation to take place throughout the internet but it doesn’t usually take that long. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

    You can use the Personal Plan if all you want is a custom domain, removal of advertising, live chat support and 6GB Storage Space but you need to add the plan first. If you add the domain first, Premium is selected automatically. Go to http://wordpress.com/plans to upgrade.

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    gemmacevans · Member ·

    Hi lykpham,

    The credit included in paid plans can be used to register one custom domain at no extra cost. However premium domains can’t currently be registered through WordPress.com on any of our plans. Which domain do you want to use?

    If you let me know, I can look at the options for using it here :)

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