how do i switch my domain from wordpress.com to wordpress.org

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  madisonslinker · Member · Jun 7, 2011 at 5:48 am

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  I accidently signed up and created a site on wordpress.com when i intended to sign up and create on wordpress.org. how can i switch my entire blog over and register my domain on a 3rd party hosting site? i don’t want to lose my work
  Blog url: http://madisonslinker.wordpress.com/

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  zefontainhas · Member · Jun 7, 2011 at 10:10 am

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  WordPress.org is software that you download and install on your own hosting service, you don’t signup and create a blog as you do in WordPress.com. Here’s more information on the differences between both.

  That said, you can easily move a WordPress.com site to a self-hosted WordPress.org site, here’s how.