Domain Names
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Hi,
I own a domain name through go-daddy and I wanted to design my website through here before advertising it through the public.
I feel like I am ready to have this site migrated to my domain name!
How do I go about my next steps? What are the options and fee’s?
Thank you for your help!
Becky -
I’m interested in this as well.
I’m working with someone who has a blog hosted on one provider, a domain through GoDaddy, and we’re looking at a WordPress.com premium account.
Since premium includes the custom domain, it would be great to get it transferred over.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/all-about-domains/ somewhat suggests sending an email to support.
If you want to transfer an existing domain to another WordPress.com blog or WordPress.com user, contact support.
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Hello bk9becky!
I’m not sure if I understood your question. You have a domain registered at GoDaddy, and I found you have a site at “bestk9.wordpress.com”. Do you want to use your domain on this WordPress.com site?
If that’s what you want, you need to map your domain following the instructions on the link below:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/
You don’t need to migrate anything, the mapping will make your WordPress.com site load when you type your domain.
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Hello strivinglife!
I’m a little bit confused about your comment, do you have a site hosted at GoDaddy? Or only a domain registered with them?
If it’s a domain, currently WordPress.com isn’t accepting incoming domain transfers. So, what you have to do is add a domain mapping to your WordPress.com site following the instructions on the link below:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/
If you have the Premium plan, you will not be charged. After you map it, your site “strivinglife.wordpress.com” will load using that domain.
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Thank you for the response, Carina.
In my particular case the blog is hosted on BlueHost, while the domain is via GoDaddy.
Do you know if there are any plans to eventually offer transfers? One of the benefits of switching this faculty member’s blog over to WordPress.com was that we’d centralize the domain and hosting in one place.
Thanks again!
James
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@strivinglife, yeah, I understand you… Unfortunately, there isn’t any plans to offer that at the moment.
Since letting the domain expire it’s dangerous, because you can lose it, the only way now is to keep it at your registrar and map to your WordPress.com site.
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Thanks for confirming that.
I don’t know how much power you have, but it might be beneficial to add either a standalone item to the support area, or a few lines/paragraph to https://en.support.wordpress.com/all-about-domains/, covering this.
Upon trying to find information on this I unfortunately just found forum posts asking about it, and one from 2012 or 2013 stating that incoming transfers weren’t available at this time.
Thanks again Carina, and sorry to unintentionally hijack your thread Becky; hopefully this helped you as well. :)
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@strivinglife, thanks for your suggestion! That’s actually at:
I’ll send your feedback to the team to discuss how we can make this better to find. :)
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Crikey. I never found that page. Either during our initial research on the feasibility of WordPress.com or during our prep work.
In case it helps, I did come across https://en.support.wordpress.com/category/domains/ a number of times. Honestly, for the ‘Domains’ item listed there I assumed that the sub-list matched the actual content on the page.
And now I see that the Table of Contents for that page are in the right side navigation. Based upon what I saw on other pages, I assumed the right side items were related pages, and would not have included a toc/jump links.
Hope that helps, and thanks for the link!
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Since I can’t edit, ‘that page’ in the third paragraph = https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#toc
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Thanks @strivinglife! We are constantly working to improve our support docs, and your feedback will definitely help us with that. :)
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