Do I need a Hosting Service to Forward my Domain Name?

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  myrodriguez · Member · May 6, 2014 at 4:24 am

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  I currently purchased a Domain Name without any hosting from GoDaddy, I initially already had my WordPress blog and wanted to connect it together. I followed the procedures on Forwarding it and even purchased the “Domain Mapped to WordPress.com”. Do I need to register with a server to be able to Map it? If I do need the server, do I still need the “Domain Map feature”?

  Thanks in Advance, I couldn’t find a similar question.

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  auxclass · Member · May 6, 2014 at 2:36 pm

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  OK – some steps & such

  michaelyrodriguez.com. – registered with Godaddy – is fine

  michaelyrodriguez.com. – domain forwarded at Godaddy to your blog here – very bad – please turn off the domain forwarding

  Name servers set to WordPress.COM – done & good – don’t changed

  It looks like you have followed most of these instructions – good

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  However your primary domain is not set correctly – needs to be set to michaelyrodriguez.com.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/#setting-the-primary-domain

  You are almost there