how does registration work
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I didn’t complete the registration process as I was checking out the facility, but the website / blog is there – how can that be when I haven’t parted with any money (I presume I atill have to pay for the domain name?) and I’ve not received any confirmation emails?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I didn’t complete the registration process as I was checking out the facility, but the website / blog is there – how can that be when I haven’t parted with any money (I presume I atill have to pay for the domain name?) and I’ve not received any confirmation emails?
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Hi there,
This is a free blog https://nellsday.wordpress.com/ being hosted by WordPress.COM. WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/Please check in your email client spam/ junk mail filter as well as your “social” tab in Gmail, if you use it. I’ll tag this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.
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how can that be when I haven’t parted with any money (I presume I atill have to pay for the domain name?)
You can purchase your own custom domain URL if you wish to.
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL 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 sub-domain 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/
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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Thank you for the prompt reply. Does this mean I can keep the blog as is and don’t need to pay for it? During part of the registration I thought it was asking for a paymentv – or was that the address with the ‘wordpress’ bit (custon domain URL?) Sorry, very new to this and don’t understand much (most ) of this!
Thanks again
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Does this mean I can keep the blog as is and don’t need to pay for it?
Yes.
Staff will follow-up the missing confirmation email report you made.
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Hi there,
I checked your account and your email address is already confirmed. Please let me know if I can do anything more to help!
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