How to update your domain from .wordpress.com to .com

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  caitjank · Member · May 2, 2013 at 12:03 am

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  hey, i want to change my website from sendafriend2aa.wordpress.com to sendafriend2aa.com. is there any way to do that?

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  timethief · Member · May 2, 2013 at 12:23 am

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  Yes. On WordPress.com, you can use a custom domain for your blog (such as yourgroovydomain.com) instead of the default address you get when you sign up (like yourgroovysite.wordpress.com). This is called Domain Mapping, and it’s a paid upgrade: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

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