Domains and redirections

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  consuelobirdlife · Member · Sep 25, 2014 at 1:33 pm

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  Hi all, I would need some help in clarifying how to do with my existing domain, which I purchased on another registrar. http://www.gruppoinsubrico.it/.

  I see that I can map this to wordpress, provided I keep paying for the existing domain and I pay the small fee of 13$. OK.

  In this way I will have to pay each year the 2 fees. So, I thought I could instead redirect the traffic from http://www.gruppoinsubrico.it/ to http://www.gruppoinsubrico.com, which I can buy from WP. In this way I pay the 2 domains for a while but then, once the SEO effect is over, I just keep the .com

  Problem is that I am not sure, reading the support pages, if I can redirect 3rd party domains to a WordPress domain (from the document it seems you are talking about only WP domains..)

  Could someone please let me know if I can do this much, redirect http://www.gruppoinsubrico.it/ to http://www.gruppoinsubrico.com (once I acquire that from you?)

  Sorry if the question is silly, it is the first time I play around with domains, DNS and stuff…
  Thanks everyone for the help!

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  valentine · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 5:37 pm

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  Hi consuelobirdlife,

  Yes, you’ll be able to map gruppoinsubrico.it to your WordPress.com blog.

  Essentially, all you’ll need to do is change the name servers at the company which registered gruppoinsubrico.it to the WordPress.com ones.

  Here’s a link to a support article that shows you how you might be able to go about doing so:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  You should also know that the domain mapping upgrade is $13 per domain, so you’ll have to purchase it twice to map both gruppoinsubrico.it and gruppoinsubrico.com to your WordPress.com blog.

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  consuelobirdlife · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 2:43 pm

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  Thanks Valentine, this helps a lot :)