How do I take a domain I currently own and register it through wordpress?
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I have recently taken over our church’s website. It had its own domain name – uulafayette.org – and was hosted on this guy who did all tech support for the church’s servers. I upgraded content and layout of the website using wordpress, hosted at uulafayette.wordpress.com, and we pointed uulafayette.org to redirect to it. Now our uulafayette.org domain name renewal has come due, and I’d like to renew it through wordpress rather than the old company, and have it hosted by wordpress which may be more responsive and helpful than our current tech support guy. Is it possible to do this? Can anyone explain to me (in short sentences, with little jargon) what I need to do to accomplish this? I found the wordpress docs on how to move your wordpress.com site to a domain you currently own for $13/yr, but I would like to consolidate the website and domain ownership. I think. Does this make sense? Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
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You can’t transfer a domain name into WordPress.COM – they are not set up to accept incoming transfers – you need to have the registration not at WordPress.COM
You can map your domain name to your blog here using these instructions: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
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Thanks – I think I was still a bit unclear. I understand I can map uulafaytte.wordpress.com to my uulafayette.org domain name. But in this article you reference, it says I can register a domain directly with wordpress.com. (THen points to http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/register-domain/). Are you saying I can’t take my uulafayette.org domain name and move it from who it is currently registered with to being registered with WordPress? Thanks for clarifying – I am clearly a newbie.
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You can’t transfer uulafayette.org to WordPress.COM registration
You can register a NEW domain name with WordPress.COM
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