Custom domain during upgrade

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  reshmakapadia · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 9:59 pm

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  Hi, I have just started using WordPress and I created a blog. I wanted to know if I upgrade to premium ($99) can I have the same domain with the “wordpress.com” from it eliminated? I ask because when I search for the domain name on WP, it says its not available? Is it because I have it with wordpress.com attached to it? ? Please help!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 10:05 pm

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  Yes. The premium upgrade bundle includes a custom domain and domain mapping upgrade in it. Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/

  Upgrades can be purchased only for WordPress.COM hosted blogs. Note that each upgrade bundle applies to a single blog only and is for a single year only when it is due to be renewed.

  You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and purchase upgrades at > Store > My Upgrades
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

  Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/

  Your options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

  All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.

  Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

  See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

  After you do the primary blog set up 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.