Domain Move from 1&1 Webhoster to WordPress
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Hello,
to begin with: What’s about Webhosting, provider, Domain move or the similar, unfortunately, I am a bloody beginner, so please forgive my clumsy kind.
I have provided for a friend a WordPress page, first in the free rate, then Upgrade on the rate personally. I have the web page so far ready, now i would like to begin to go “live”. The friend already has a web page and own Domain (www.example.de) from the web hoster/provider 1&1. However, this old web page does not run by my friend, but by a web designer, who made this old website back then. So we have thought, now a move of the Domain would make sense, so that the web designer can cancel everything and the domain runs by wordpress/the account of my friend. Besides, the new wordpress website (example.wordpress.com) now should be also accessible under the old Domain (www.example.de) again. That means, if I type http://www.example.de, the new wordpress site should appear in the browser and also if I click, for example, on the menu Point Contact on the WordPress side, contact should be indicated in the URL, so it is http://www.example.de/contact.
Long speech, short sense: whats the best solution with a rate personally? With a simply Domain Mapping, the web hoster 1&1 of the old domain would stay the Webhoster, right? and this is not what we aim…
Thanks a lot and sorry for the english…
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Hello –
To use your custom domain on WordPress.com you will need to setup domain mapping.
Here’s how you do it:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/Once you edit the name servers that tells the internet to show your WordPress.com site with that specific domain instead of the old site.
You will need access to the domain through the registry company in order to configure the name servers and point it to WordPress.com.
Once all of this is configured your .wordpress.com free site is going to automatically redirect in the browser to the custom domain.
Is this helpful? What other questions do you have?
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but with the domain mapping, i thought the webhoster would stay simply the same..? We want to cancel everything about / with the old webhoster 1&1. Does wordpress take over the webhosting when i do domain mapping?
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besides: i already did the domain mapping, but now there is written “dns-configuration required”
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Good Morning –
What is the actual domain that you’re working on? mobile-ff.de?
You have mapped this domain to your account, but still need to configure the name servers. This happens from your domain provider, and is step #2 here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/After the name servers are changed from 1und1.de to the WordPress.com name servers that error will go away and within a few hours your domain is going to load your WordPress.com site. Sometimes the name server changes can take up to 72 hours to fully activate, but typically it’s much shorter than that.
WordPress.com will then be your host for the website.
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Thanks for your answer!!
I’ll talk to the web designer, who is hosting the domain mobile-ff.de at the moment and hope, that everythings gonna be working then! -
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thats great, because in fact there is really one question left at the moment: isnt it the best option for us, that the web designer quit the hosting at 1&1 of the domain, so the domain is available again. Then we could do instead of domain mapping just use the domain, because in the rate personal, there is one / any domain for free right?
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but if you think its possible to do so as i wrote above, is there a way to cancel the domain mapping and take instead the domain (after the webdesigner quit the hosting at 1&1)?
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Hi –
In order to use a domain that is already owned somewhere else, like your situation, you need to setup domain mapping. WordPress.com is unable to accept the transfer of the domain from your current provider to our system.
The domain will stay registered with the current domain provider, and will need renewed annually to remain active. On the WordPress.com side, you’ll need to keep your plan upgrade active so that your domain shows your WordPress.com site.
WordPress.com will take care of the hosting though, you will no longer need to carry a hosting provider after the mapping is setup.
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so that means that we have to keep the current domain provider active even after the domain mapping and that we have to pay the domain provider?
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Right. You’ll keep your domain at the current registrar. Domain registrations need renewed annually (regardless of where you have registered the domain).
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