Domain mapping confusion

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    43south · Member ·

    I’ve got a domain mapped to a different wordpress.com blog at a rate of $13/year, but I notice this option isn’t offered for any ‘new’ site. The default for domain mapping is $99/year. Why the inconsistency, and how do I go about domain mapping for my new WordPress.com site at the $13/year rate? Are you trying to transition people to a more expensive service that we don’t necessarily need? [Excuse cynicism]🙂

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    timethief · Member ·

    I believe you may be referring to an upgrade that no longer exists. Stand alone upgrades were discontinued last year. Now we need to register a plan and the price has changed.

    WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/

    We have 4 different plans: free, personal, premium and business. All hosting is free regardless of which plan you choose. You can view all wordpress.com plan features here https://wordpress.com/pricing/ Add a plan for each of your sites here: http://store.wordpress.com/plans/.

    How domain mapping works
    Registering an underlying .wordpress.com URL first is required for domain mapping. What domain mapping does is providing a seamless redirect to the very same content under the new domain URL when a person clicks the old URL .wordpress.com to the original content. It can take up to 72 hours for domain propagation to take place throughout the internet but it doesn’t usually take that long. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

    Please go to https://wordpress.com/pricing/ to upgrade.

    If you have any difficulties see what Staff said here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/custom-domain-89?replies=6#post-2882612

    You can use the Personal Plan, yes, but you need to add the plan first. If you add the domain first, Premium is selected automatically.

    Go to My Site ->Plans and buy the Personal Plan, and then you can go back and claim your free domain at My Site ->Domains ->Add.

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