Domain
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Please help us make word press our full domain. We are currently using enom and want to change that. The following email is from our diocese to help us try and understand what we need to do.
From Diocese: Word press is ‘using’ your domain name which was registered with some other domain registrar — possibly Enom. Word press is charging you an extra fee to do this. The fee is equivalent to the cost of the annual cost of a domain name.
Why pay that twice? Why not just move it to WP?
It is more convenient and cheaper to have word press become your domain registrar.
You should be able to start the ‘move’ from within Word Press. They will contact your current domain registrar and let them know you are moving.
This is a common practice and usually goes fairly smoothly.
You need to move quickly — like today.
WP has chat help if you get stuck.
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What I read up there sounds like marketspeak from a person who has little or no experience with answering support questions.
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers, but mapping an existing domain is possible.
If you cancel your domain name at enom there is no guarantee you can register it again via wordpress.com.
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Why pay that twice? Why not just move it to WP?
It is more convenient and cheaper to have word press become your domain registrar.
Perhaps that advice is focused on getting you to remove domain mapping from your .wordpress.com site, and move your content into a wordpress.ORG software install, which will not have all wordpress.COM features, and for which there is no wordpress.COM Staff support.
In case that is the case here, I typed modlook into the sidebar of this thread for Staff help. Please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Hello ourladyofmtcarm!
Please, don’t create duplicated threads… If I got it right, what your diocese requested, let me help you understand. The point is that a domain upgrade is made of two things: registration and mapping. Right now, you have the registration somewhere else (possibly Enom) and the mapping with WordPress.com, that’s probably what they want to say with “Why pay that twice? Why not just move it to WP?”. Because you can have the whole domain upgrade (registration and mapping) at your WordPress.com account.
The problem here, like @timethief said, is that WordPress.com is not currently accepting domain transfers. Then, it’s not possible to transfer the domain registration to your WordPress.com account. So, I suggest you keep your domain the way it is, because the option you have is cancel the domain at Enom and register it at WordPress.com, but it’s not guaranteed you will not lose it. The process of a domain cancellation is complicated and someone else can buy it. Unless you want to register a new one, all through your WordPress.com account.
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