Domain name switch

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    servigliano · Member ·

    I would like to subscribe to a paid plan so advertising does appear on my blog. If my current blog is made-this-up.wordpress.com and the domain name I request is made-this-up.com, will made-this-up.wordpress.com still work? Everyone knows me as made-this-up.wordpress.com so dropping the wordpress.com is an issue.

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    timethief · Member ·

    The answer to your question is yes.

    You can use the Personal Plan if all you want is a custom domain, removal of advertising, live chat support and 6GB Storage Space but you need to add the plan first. If you add the domain first, Premium is selected automatically. Go to http://wordpress.com/plans to upgrade.

    How domain mapping works
    Registering an underlying .wordpress.com URL first is required for domain mapping. That underlying URL does not have to match the domain URL when you are 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. Register a New Domain https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/register-domain/

    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/

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    servigliano · Member ·

    Thank you so much!

    This is exactly the detailed information I had been hoping for.

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