I renewed my domain through GoDaddy, WordPress still says it's expired. Help!

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  adamjerb · Member · Sep 17, 2015 at 1:12 pm

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  My WordPress account still says that my domain has expired, but I renewed it through GoDaddy before it did. I already mapped the Domain to my WordPress account, do I need to re-map it or? Please help me!

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 17, 2015 at 6:57 pm

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  I tagged this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

  Did you renew the annual domain mapping upgrade from WordPress.COM as well?

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  adamjerb · Member · Sep 17, 2015 at 7:23 pm

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  Thanks for that! I already subscribed to this. My domain never actually expired, which is why I posted this topic. My domain is through GoDaddy. My domain should still be mapped, shouldn’t it?

  Domain mapping upgrade? No, that’s probably my problem. What is that and what do I have to do for that?

  Sorry, silly questions that I should already know the answers to. Truth be told, I used WP a lot last year but then stopped. A year later, I want to start back up but I forget almost everything and will have to re-learn what I knew.

  Thank you!

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  adamjerb · Member · Sep 17, 2015 at 7:25 pm

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  Crap…I am a noob. I just figured out what I did wrong and how to fix it. Sorry to waste your time! This can be closed to whomever closes it.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 17, 2015 at 7:25 pm

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  re: mapping an 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, each and every year.

  Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually .

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL.

  If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the WordPress.COM blog, and as you own a domain URL already, you can see here for mapping an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  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.