Domain Change

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  withloveeden · Member · Jan 21, 2016 at 8:38 pm

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  I bought a domain from name.com (withloveeden.com) and I would like it to be the new domain name for my current blog (withloveeden.wordpress.com). How do I do that? name.com states that to transfer the domain, I need an account number for my current domain.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 21, 2016 at 8:42 pm

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  There is no domain mapping upgrade for withloveeden.com. If you would like to use this domain you will first need to set up domain mapping.

  re: mapping an existing domain
  WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible.

  If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the WordPress.COM blog, and as you own a domain URL already, you can see here for mapping an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made, it and the domain mapping purchase here, each and every year.

  Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually and a domain name purchase and domain mapping are included in the Premium upgrade bundle.

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL. If you do not register a .wordpress.com blog URL first then the software supplies the dot whatever URL so you can proceed with your domain mapping purchase.

  See https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

  Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/

  Your only options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

  It can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.