How do I use the domain name for my current website for a new WordPress site?

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  sarahgenelle · Member · Jul 11, 2013 at 10:40 am

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  I have an existing website created years ago with another service. I would like to delete this website and start a new website on WordPress using the same domain name. I own the domain name. How do I do this?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 11, 2013 at 8:32 pm

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  If you would like to use your domain to map to from your free hosted wordpress.com blog to it you will first need to set up domain mapping. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/ set up domain mapping. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  After you make the domain mapping purchase here > Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades and 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.