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  russellluck · Member · Jan 19, 2023 at 12:34 am

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  Hi,

  We are seeking to transfer our wordpress site to our own technical support department.

  For a .au domain do we require hosting separately or is it that our domain is not able to be transferred to WordPress?

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  staff-95percentghost · Staff · Jan 19, 2023 at 12:23 pm

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  Hi there! If you’d like to host the site through WordPress.com you can absolutely do so! As the domain ends in .au you would indeed need to keep it registered with a different provider and simply connect it to your site here; the reason for this is that WordPress.com isn’t able to receive transfers of .au domains:
  https://wordpress.com/support/domains/domain-pricing-and-available-tlds/

  This means that the cost to renew the domain would be paid to your domain provider; but connecting it to your site here would be included in the cost of your WordPress.com plan. This is the information you’d need with regards to connecting the domain:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/connect-existing-domain/

  One other thing that’s worth bearing in mind is email; depending on whether you’re email services through your domain provider, or your current host, you could continue with your current email setup; but we do also sell email subscriptions should you find yourself in need:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/

  In terms of which plan you may want, the Premium plan is a handy choice as it includes a few added appearance and customization options. You can do things like set up one or two forms on the site (with different fields in each form), and set up a newsletter, without needing extra plugins! We have information about all of the plans we offer here:
  https://wordpress.com/pricing/

  If it can be helpful for the future, this guide is for the Form block we offer:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/blocks/form-block/

  This is the information regarding setting up a newsletter:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/launch-a-newsletter/

  We do also have an express service for setting up the pages of the site (so that you can then continue to manage and control it), which is part of our Built by WordPress.com service. There’s more information about that here:
  https://wordpress.com/do-it-for-me/?utm_campaign=happiness

  Let us know if you have any other questions!