Domain and Mapping – I'm confused!

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  willowsworldview · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 6:14 pm

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  Bought the bundle and own two domains candidlycanine.com and dogswhoblog.com

  Now I am trying to

  FIRST: change from http://www.candidlycanine.wordpress.com to candidlycanine.com

  SECOND: map the other domain (dogswhoblog) to my main blog of candidlycanine.com At this point I do not have wordpress blog started for dogswhoblog, only bought the name and will want all traffic driven to primary blog.

  THIRD: set up an email for (email visible only to moderators and staff)

  I know there are help documents – but being so new to this, I am confused. When I typed in “candidlycanine” to make the switch – the prompt came back saying it would not accept it.

  HELP!
  Blog url: http://candidlycanine.wordpress.com/

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 8:20 pm

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  Howdy,

  You’ll first want to change your name servers for candidlycanine.com to:

  ns1.wordpress.com
  ns2.wordpress.com
  ns3.wordpress.com

  You can make the change at your domain registrar’s website. Then, map the domain to your WordPress.com blog by entering it under your dashboard at Store -> Domains.

  http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  You can map as many domains you want to a single blog by following the above steps.

  As for your last question, you can use Google Apps to host your custom domain email. Full instructions are here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/

  Don’t hesitate to contact us again if you need anymore help. :-)

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  willowsworldview · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 11:07 pm

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  It worked – yeah!

  Thank you

  …that just gave me a little boost of confidence. Now I’ll work on the email thingy. Hope it goes as smoothly.