Hey. Just signed up
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I pressed back and it just gave me a .com I didn’t want. I’d like to erase it and pick another. Thanks
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I don not understand exactly what you are reporting. You have registered the free blog http://freejavacom.wordpress.com/ being free hosted by WordPress.COM.
If you provided your financial information and purchased any upgrades they will be reflected in these two spots:
Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Dashboard > Store > Billing History
https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/If you will please post again and be descriptive then we can assist you provided you post any URLs starting with https:// involved in your issue.
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I never choose freejavacom.wordpress.com. It just gave me that as I was trying to find a domain that wasn’t taken. I’d like to cancel what they gave me and use a domain name of my choosing. Hope this makes more sense. Thanks
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Understand that in order to use a custom domain name you have to purchase a domain mapping upgrade, and it requires that you have an underlying .wordpress.com blog URL to map from to the custom domain URL.
I am not clear on what you mean. WordPress.COM is the top level domain here. All WordPress.COM blogs are hosted on sub-domains like http://pectraining.wordpress.com/ Is that the blog address you want to change? Or do you want to purchase domain mapping?
re: changing a .wordpress.com blog address
We cannot edit any blog URLs. If you want to change the .wordpress.com blog address ie. the URL starting with http:// then you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to do that and the URL you desire must be available. If so, then you can change the URL by using the guide http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/Be sure to locate the correct page http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dashboard-e1371648470893.png
Changing a URL is a permanent and irreversible act. No changed or deleted blog URLs are recycled here, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/re: mapping domains
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.
If you would like to use a domain URL that you already own on the blog hosted by WordPress.com you will first need to register a .wordpress.com blog, purchase an upgrade for it, and set up domain mapping.
Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. Payment methods are found at http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
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.
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.
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/
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made it and the domain mapping purchase here every year. Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually.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.
If you succeed at purchasing the domain mapping upgrade it will be reflected at these two spots:
Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades
http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Dashboard > Store > Billing History
http://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/Your payment methods are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
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I’m not sure if you’re a person or a bot, but once again. I don’t want the name freejavacom.wordpress.com. I’d like to change the name… In fact I never choose it… Can you tell me how to do this?
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Click the member link under my username . I am a human being who has answered questions here for over 8 years (nearly 9) and I predate every Support Staff member except one even being on Staff. I also predate the support docs.
I don’t want the name freejavacom.wordpress.com.
You have two options and I posted both above.
1. http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/
2. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/ -
@jkane1979
Why not just register a new free address? As you don’t have any content on your site yet that might be easiest. Then you set the existing address to private and use it as a test or backup blog.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/#adding-new-site%C2%A0to-an-existing-account
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Hey time thief. No insult intended. Just was shocked by the amount of info you got over to me in a matter of minutes. I didn’t read through all of it, I was hoping there would be a easier resolution. Thanks for your help though!
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