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  selavieinterior · Member · Apr 20, 2017 at 10:23 am

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  Currently my websites name is http://www.selavieinterior.wordpress.com.
  I would like to remove the wordpress part, since I already own the domain for selavieinterior.com.
  How do I do that?

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  otpidusprime · Member · Apr 20, 2017 at 10:31 am

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  Hello @selavieinterior,
  You have 2 options:
  1. You can upgrade to a paid WordPress.COM plan which comes with a free custom domain(like selavieinterior.com) credit and also with additional features. So you don’t have to pay extra for registering a domain.

  If you want to check if your desired domain is available before upgrading then go here: https://wordpress.com/domains/

  Read more about registering a domain on WordPress.COM here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/register-domain/

  OR

  2. You can register a domain outside WordPress.COM, from registrars like GoDaddy, BlueHOst, NameCheap etc. and then point that domain to your WordPress.COM site/blog using domain mapping.

  Read more about domain mapping here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

  NOTE: You still have to upgrade to a paid WordPress.COM plan to be able to map your domain. So you pay extra in this case for registering a domain.

  Hope this helps 🙂

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  selavieinterior · Member · Apr 20, 2017 at 10:43 am

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  Thank you for the help, but

  I already paid for the plan, and I also already own the domain http://www.selavieinterior.com. I bought it from GoDaddy.

  So, where do I go from there?

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  otpidusprime · Member · Apr 20, 2017 at 10:47 am

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  Okay, now you need map the domain you bought from GoDaddy to your WordPress.COM site.

  Follow the instructions given here to do that:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 20, 2017 at 6:47 pm

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  Hi!

  I contacted Go Daddy so that they could mask my registered domain. Thats over 6 hours ago, and still I get the same message from wordpress when I try to “Add” domain that “this domain is already exist”.

  I dont understand what I am suppose to do to remove the “wordpress” part from my URL.. Please help….

  I just went to http://www.selavieinterior.com/ and this is what i saw: https://cl.ly/1i2I2l0A3I2d – Congratulations, it worked!

  Enjoy your new site here at WordPress.Com!
  dave