domain name
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i want to use my domain name i purchased from name cheap. why is wordpress asking me to pay again to map it?
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Please stop creating duplicate threads https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/mindwellmanagement
Post only one for any single topic or issue please.
i want to use my domain name i purchased from name cheap. why is wordpress asking me to pay again to map it?
The answer is that domain mapping to your domain name it not done free of charge, and domain forwarding is not supported and will fail.
WordPress.COM blogs do not have permanent IP addresses. IP addresses here can and do can change over time and your domain may stop working if you rely on them. For more information about domain mapping and IP addresses please read https://en.support.wordpress.com/ip-addresses/
Please read first:
Important Notes Before Upgrading https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgradingre: 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.
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Have you already paid for domain mapping with WordPress.com? If so you can use these instructions to finish setting it up https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/
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staff-zinnia
I posted a complete answer to the question posed above by mindwellmanagement at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-name-993?replies=3#post-2559775 5 minutes before you did.Are you not able to read what I posted?
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staff-zinnia
Aha! I’m glad my response isn’t in the spam filter. 5 minutes – wow that’s a weird delay. Maybe you failed to click refresh (shrug).
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