Important question prior to upgrading to personal hosting!
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Hi, I own 2 domains and would like to have both into the personal hosting plan. One domain ends in ***.com and the other one ends in ***.gr – my understanding is that I will pay for one and get the other hosting for free. At the moment, ***wordpress.com appears as my primary domain on WordPress (free hosting). When I upgrade, will the ‘wordpress’ word be removed from the website address? Or will the ***wordpress.com exist forever as a website?
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Hi, I own 2 domains and would like to have both into the personal hosting plan. One domain ends in ***.com and the other one ends in ***.gr – my understanding is that I will pay for one and get the other hosting for free. At the moment, ***wordpress.com appears as my primary domain on WordPress (free hosting). When I upgrade, will the ‘wordpress’ word be removed from the website address? Or will the ***wordpress.com exist forever as a website?
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my understanding is that I will pay for one and get the other hosting for free
All sites hosted by WordPress.COM with or without upgrades are free hosted by WordPress.COM.
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How domain mapping works
Registering an underlying .wordpress.com URL first is required for domain mapping. That underlying URL does not have to match the domain URL when you are domain mapping. What domain mapping does is providing a seamless redirect to the very same content under the new domain URL when a person clicks the old URL .wordpress.com to the original content. It can take up to 72 hours for domain propagation to take place throughout the internet but it doesn’t usually take that long. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
There are 3 ways to add a custom domain to your blog. Please note that an active WordPress.com plan is required to add a custom domain to your site. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#getting-started
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ The domain or mapping of any existing domain URL is included in the pricing for a personal upgrade, a premium and a business upgrade. The WordPress.COM upgrade for mapping a domain must be renewed annually.
WordPress.com does not provide an email service for blogs on their sub domains or on custom domains. Please see these support docs
https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/Before you upgrade
Make sure you read the comparison very closely do you know exactly what the restrictions and limitations on WordPress.COM blogging are: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Also read Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
How to upgrade
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, select a plan.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/
See: https://wordpress.com/pricingYour billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/Your only options for payment are found here Payment Methods http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
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