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  uppereastsidenyc · Member · Oct 2, 2011 at 5:56 pm

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  After paying for the domain upgrade, a message appeared indicating to wait 60 seconds for instructions. It never appeared.

  Currently, my blog is uppereastside-ny.wordpress.com – Note, there should be a hyphen before –ny …. It doesn’t appear! I’m hoping it won’t confuse it with another existing site without the hyphen!

  Can you help me map out “.wordpress.com” so that it appears simply as uppereastside-ny.com (With the hyphen, of course!)

  Many thanks.

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 2, 2011 at 6:00 pm

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  Hi. http://uppereastside-ny.com already directs to uppereastsideny.wordpress.com
  If it doesn’t work yet on your end, this is normal: give it time.

  However, you need to complete one more step in order to have your new .com address (hyphen included!) replacing your old .wordpress.com one.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/#instructions-for-registering-a-new-domain-for-your-blog (step 5)

  One last thing: there are no hyphens in .wordpress.com addresses: only in custom domain names like the one you bought.