How to pay for registering a domain
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how to pay for registering a domain with wordpress.com
I ponder whether to register a domain with wordpress in order to get a meaningful URL. Before doing so I would like to know how to pay the fees for registration. No credit card, no paypal – so I maybe lost. Am I?
Thanks in advance.
Sigrid
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Below are the only accepted means of payment for any and all WordPress.COM upgrades.
WordPress.com uses PayPal as the payment processor, and as such, can only accept payment from countries they support: https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/
If for whatever reason, they have chosen to block payment from your country, you will not be able to purchase an upgrade here unless you have a source of payment outside of your country.
In addition to major credit cards Mastercard, VISA, American Express, Discover, and PayPal https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/ WordPress.com can accept echecks and some debit cards.
The debit card must have a VISA or Mastercard symbol on it, and should work just like a credit card when selecting the VISA or Mastercard option on the payment form, even though it’s a debit card.
More about echecks here:
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/article/?solutionId=13054&topicID=11500008&m=TCI -
Re: domain mapping
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/
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. Payment methods are found at http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
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.
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.
See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made it and the domain mapping purchase here every year. Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually.
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.
If you succeed at purchasing the domain mapping upgrade it will be reflected at these two spots:
Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades
http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Dashboard > Store > Billing History
http://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/
See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/ -
Hallo, timethief,
thank you so much for taking the time and answer my question.
BTW: can’t do what I want because I couldn’t pay the bill:-;
Regards,
Sigrid -
Hi again Sigrid,
You’re welcome and not to worry as blogs on .wordpress.com sub-domains get lots of traffic and purchasing any upgrades is not required to have a successful blog here. -
Hallo, timethief,
thank you for your advise. I’ll think it over – but it’s not a personal blog. I am helping a friend to establish a website for her business – the audience will be elderly people, and so not acquainted using any electronic device nor used to see any English words. So better I’ll try to “germanify” all content and the URL, too.
It’s a pity that we’ll have no means to buy some upgrades:-(
Regards,
Sigrid -
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