How to really customize the domain?

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    moonleopard85 · Member ·

    Hi,

    I need help in customizing my domain for Nerdy Shique Universe so I can sign up for Word Ads. I tried clicking on the “Update my Domain” and nothing and even tried the customize my domain page and couldn’t understand what was being asked or find the right buttons with my screen reader. I even tried the help page and didn’t get much from that. Can someone help?

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hi there,
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    timethief · Member ·

    This is just an added note to explain that customizing a blog has nothing whatever to do with purchasing a domain mapping upgrade and applying for WordAds. For WordAds your blog must have a domain mapping upgrade. It does not have to have a custom design upgrade.
    re: WordAds
    Main site link http://wordads.co/
    FAQs link http://wordads.co/faq/
    Benefits link http://wordads.co/benefits/
    Invitation link http://wordads.co/signup/

    To contact WordAds Staff directly use this link http://wordads.co/contact/

    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.

    If you would like to use a domain URL that you already own on the blog hosted by WordPress.com you will first need to register a .wordpress.com blog, purchase an upgrade for it, and set up domain mapping.

    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/

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

    Your payment methods are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

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    jeremeylduvall · Member ·

    Hi!

    Could you elaborate on what you mean by “Customize the domain”? Are you trying to set up a custom domain on your site nerdyshiqueuniverse.wordpress.com? A custom domain would be something like nerdyshiqueuniverse.com.

    If you’re trying to setup a custom domain, you can do so following the instructions here:

    Register a New Domain

    Please let me know if you have any trouble!

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