Confused about the wordpress URL
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Why does it read constantwiningdotcom.wordpress.com instead of constantwining.wordpress.com (my website is constantwining.com so where did dotcom come from it’s confusing). I am in the midst of getting the domain set up and have no clue what I am doing – taking it one step at a time. Bear with me.
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It looks like your one and only WordPress.com site is constantwiningdotcom.wordpress.com.
The site constantwining.wordpress.com, which was owned by a different WordPress.com user, was deleted in 2009.
You can either purchase a custom domain that will lay on top of your WordPress.com address, or you can change your WordPress.com address to something else that has not been used before.
To change a WordPress.com address:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/A WHOIS search on constantwining.com shows that someone currently owns that domain and the nameservers are pointing to WordPress.com, but there is no associated domain mapping: http://who.is/whois/constantwining.com
If that’s your domain, you can purchase the domain mapping upgrade to map it to your blog at any time. If not, you can register a different domain.
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Gotcha so I must have signed up for the constantwiningdotcom because someone else already had it. Thank you for clarifying because I had signed up a while ago and finally have the time to work on this. I own the URL constantwining.com and am looking to map to it (I pointed to it yesterday so that was fast…). I am not sure I have an email address associated with the URL so checking on that in the meantime. Do you recommend dealing with the email setup first before purchasing the mapping upgrade? If I do not have an email already set up – how do I set one up through wordpress.com?
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Ok I have added the mapping upgrade to constantwining.com and not sure what steps are next. There is no email associated with the URL as of yet.
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WordPress.com doesn’t have mailservers, so you’ll have to use a workaround http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/
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I still am not sure there is a step I have missed in the mapping upgrade. How will I know? Is this something that takes some time? How do I transfer the hosting to wordpress?
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http://constantwiningdotcom.wordpress.com/ is already hosted at WP.com, and http://constantwining.com/ brings it up.
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Ok so once I begin blogging now everything will show up on constantwining.com? I haven’t set anything up yet but wanted to make sure it was ready to go. Thanks
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