Domain Mapping

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  ianbuckingham27 · Member · Jul 25, 2014 at 12:51 pm

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  A couple of questions about domain mapping:
  1) If I purchase the domain via WordPress ‘Domains’ is this automatic and does it still incur a fee for the mapping.

  2) If I use a domain purchased elsewhere do I need to purchase hosting as well as the domain mapping?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2014 at 3:54 pm

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  Yes and yes.

  Your content stays exactly where it is. All that changes is the URLs and your visitors are seamlessly redirected from the original .wordpress.com URLs to the same content under the new domain URLs.

  Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
  All About Domains http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/all-about-domains/

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

  You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.

  See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  WordPress.com provides free blogs and free hosting for them. WordPress.com does not accept domain name transfers but mapping to an existing domain can be done. Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made it and the domain mapping purchase here every year.

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  After you do the primary blog set up 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.