Is paying extra for privacy protection on domain necessary?
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I’m about to upgrade my blog to a paid domain? Do I need to pay for privacy protection? Is this necessary?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No. If you don’t want people to personally identify you that is what private domain registration is for.
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Even that doesn’t work sometimes. People can identify you from your author info, gravatar, “published by” tag, etc.
I faced this problem even after having privacy protection. I had to devise a strategy to remain anonymous on my blog in question.
Privacy protection can (to some extent) protect one from spammers, hackers, etc. but it may not be necessary when you’re maintaining a small personal blog and not a business site.
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Okay thank you both for the info. One other question, I hope that I am correct that when I upgrade my current wordpress.com blog to my purchased domain – all of the info on my current blog will be posted to the new domain? Can you answer that for me please? Or, when people log onto the old wordpress.com address does it just redirect them to the new domain?
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All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. 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/
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
See here if you do not own a domain
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
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/
Your payment methods are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
Your upgrade history will be here Dashboard > Store> My Upgrades
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/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.
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