how do you change your website domain and title name?

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  laurenlily27 · Member · Oct 11, 2015 at 10:46 pm

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  I wanted to name my blog ‘accidental hearts’ as opposed to ‘accidental hearts blog’ and was hoping to get advice as to how I might change it…

  Thanks so much for any help you could provide! :)

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2015 at 10:49 pm

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  Hello there,

  You cannot register a URL that someone else has already registered under their username account https://accidentalhearts.wordpress.com/
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/accidentalhearts

  There is no expiration date on .wordpress.com blogs unused, reserved or otherwise. If there is no contact information or you do not get a response to a contact form submission or to a comment on the site, Staff will not breach the privacy policy and provide you with an email address.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/private-user-data/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/private-information/

  You can register another .wordpress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/

  Then if you wish to you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade because it does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is when you are domain mapping.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2015 at 10:51 pm

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  re: purchasing a custom domain URL

  All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URLs and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. 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.

  Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  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.

  See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
  http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  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.

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  laurenlily27 · Member · Oct 11, 2015 at 11:20 pm

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  Thanks so much for your reply – I was hoping to just take away the word “blog” from the title… if possible, I would like to change the domain name as well (remove the word “blog”), but the thing I’d like the most is to just have my blog name appear on my wordpress site as “accidental hearts”.

  any advice? :)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2015 at 11:30 pm

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  The Site title (blog name) and/or the optional Tagline can be changed on the top of this page at any time. > Settings > General … “save changes”.

  That is exactly where search engine spiders look for the site title and removing it from there can cause issues with getting your content indexed.

  Note that the site title (blog name) and blog address URL do not have to be the same but it’s better for SEO (search engine optimization) if they are the same.

  You are hooked on accidental hearts as a blog name (site title) so I suggest you note that the URL has already been purchased.
  accidentalhearts.com is hosted by Amazon.com
  WHOIS: Click Here
  IP Address: 54.174.31.254
  Name Servers:
  ns1.namebrightdns.com
  ns2.namebrightdns.com

  Also use google search to see what your competition will be for appearance in the SERPs (search engine page results) if you use accidental hearts as a site title (blog name).