Do I need to move my domain name?

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  faerydogmother · Member · Aug 10, 2018 at 5:55 pm

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  I may eventually like to sell my items on my wordpress site. Right now I have an old blog site that hasn’t been updated in 4 years. Do I need to move my domain now, or later when I’m ready to pay for and manage my wordpress business site?

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  timethief · Member · Aug 11, 2018 at 2:14 am

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  You can move it at any time.

  The migration guide is here: Coming from a self-hosted WordPress site? https://en.support.wordpress.com/coming-from-self-hosted/

  If you are not importing content from a self-hosted WordPress site see here: Importing Content from Another Platform https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/#importing-content-from-another-platform

  To use a domain URL you purchased elsewhere on any wordpress.COM site you will need to upgrade first and then map to an existing domain. To map an existing domain see http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
  Alternatively, see Incoming domain transfer http://en.support.wordpress.com/incoming-domain-transfer/

  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/
  https://wordpress.com/plans/

  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.

  Registering an underlying .wordpress.com URL first is required for domain mapping and that underlying .wordpress.com 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/