Does "…wordpress.com" always have to display in URL?

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    carolinem1975 · Member ·

    I have a free WordPress.com site and I’m thinking of upgrading to Premium.

    I currently own domain names with GoDaddy and want to forward these to my WordPress site. This is easy enough with a simple forward in Godaddy interface. However I don’t want “…wordpress.com” to show in the address bar – I’d like this to stay as “myurl.com/about” (or whichever the page is).

    Is this possible? It doesn’t seem to be possible with my free WordPress.com site but would it be if I paid for Premium?

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    You can add your own domain to a WordPress.com site by upgrading to any of our paid plans, yes.

    If you already own a domain at GoDaddy, you have two options:

    1) You can keep the domain at GoDaddy, and just point it to us. You’ll still be paying GoDaddy for renewing the domain each year, but it will be connected to a site hosted on our servers. You can connect as many domains as you want using this method, as long as you have a paid plan, at no additional cost.

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

    2) You can transfer your domain registration to us. The Premium Plan allows you to do this for one domain for free, and transferring additional domains can be done at an extra per-domain cost. As part of the process every transferred domain will also be renewed for an additional year on top of its current expiration date. Going forward, the domain will renew separately from your plan, but both the plan and domain will be with us, so you’ll only pay one provider for both upgrades.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/move-domain/incoming-domain-transfer/

    Simply forwarding the domain from GoDaddy will not work. That does not actually connect the domain to the WordPress.com site, so we cannot have the site display at the domain if you do that. GoDaddy does offer a service called domain masking, where they set things up on their end to make it appear as if the site is at the domain, but we don’t support that method on our end, and it will cause some features of your site, like stats, mobile responsiveness and some widgets, to not work correctly.

    Let me know if you have any questions about this.

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