Domain registration

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  makinyi · Member · Apr 3, 2015 at 2:53 pm

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  I registered my blog as a .com from a link on the dashboard and proceeded to purchase but nothing changed. I wasn’t prompted to do anything.
  Is it possible to upgrade to .com directly from wordpress without having to deal with external hosting etc.?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 3, 2015 at 3:03 pm

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  What is the URL of the domain you purchased please?

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  makinyi · Member · Apr 3, 2015 at 4:37 pm

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  Its kinkydiyctator.com (as suggested by wordpress)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 3, 2015 at 4:41 pm

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  There is no domain mapping upgrade for kinkydiyctator.com as yet. If you would like to use this domain you will first need to set up domain mapping.

  What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.

  Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

  See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

  After you do the primary blog set up 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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  makinyi · Member · Apr 4, 2015 at 10:05 am

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  Thank you for this.
  I’ll go through before settling.

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  pmciano · Member · Apr 4, 2015 at 3:05 pm

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  @makinyi

  You can add kinkydiyctator.com to your site here:

  https://kinkydiyctator.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains

  Register a New Domain

  Let us know if you have any more questions.