Domains

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    natalieisaranga · Member ·

    Hey fellow wordpress uses.
    I’m am upgrading my wordpress blog domain, (cause I am sick of seeing .wordpress) anyway, I am very confused on how to do this if i get a domain outside of wordpress. cause i have found a cheap domian, but dont know how to keep that, and use it for my wordpress blog

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    thistimethisspace · Member ·

    Yes you can purchase a domain elsewhere first. Then you can purchase domain mapping upgrade from WordPress.com and use the domain on your free hosted WordPress.com blog.

    In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from. To register a WordPress.com blog see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

    If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchase an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.

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

    Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing 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.

    NOTE: WordPress.com does not provide an email service for domains. See here for adding email http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/add-email/

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