is the domain name the same as hosting?
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is the domain name the same as hosting?
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No.
Please just tell us what it is that you aim to achieve and we will address that.
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I want to transfer lucymoorman.com from homestead to wordpress where I have created a new blog. From my research, I see that I must still keep homestead as my “host” because wordpress doesn’t do that which means I pay wordpress $13 a year for “mapping” and still have to pay homestead or someone else for hosting and domain. Is that correct? I was hoping for a simpler answer. I don’t want to pay twice or be with two business.
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There is no simpler answer.
WordPress.com provides free blogs and free hosting for them. WordPress.com does not accept domain name transfers but mapping to an existing domain can be done.
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.
Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually. In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from. If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.
See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing 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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okay,thanks for the answer. So if I want to leave homestead completely, does it complicate things if I transfer lucymoorman.com from homestead to namecheap and then map it from namecheap to wordpress. Then I would pay $13 a year for mapping and hosting from wordpress and $10 a year for keeping my domain name which would be at namecheap. JeeeZ!
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If you want to leave homestead completely you cannot transfer the domain you purchased to WordPress.COM . Are you clear on that?
Frankly, I don’t consider the charge for domain mapping to be high at all. It means we pay about a buck a month to have it and to me that’s a bargain.
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No, I don’t mind the charge from wordpress. It’s not high. Homestead is $10 a month, Namecheap is $10 a year. I’m trying to save some money.
Are you saying that I can’t do the middle move, from homestead to namecheap to wordpress?
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I am saying that WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers. All that’s available is domain mapping.
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Hello, I have contacted homestead and they said to get the A record IP address from wordpress. I am mapping lucymoorman.com to (email visible only to moderators and staff). What is the next step?
thank you
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yes you can Transfer to Name Cheap then map the domain name to your blog here – easy – I have a domain name at Name Cheap and it maps here just fine
The domain mapping – see below
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
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WordPress.COM does not have static IP addresses for blogs – about 30,000,000 blogs on six IP addresses
Name Cheap does let you map using name servers – easier
I have also flagged this for the staff to help with the A record stuff
Did you have an email address that uses your custom domain name? If so you will need to deal with that – but there are several options – from email forwarding (free) to full up email on another host (costs)
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Hi Auxclass,
Thanks, I decided to keep my domain name with homestead instead of switching it to namecheap and then mapping it to wordpress. It costs $5 more a year but it’s easier.I don’t have any email with either site. I think I might have successfully made the switch. Anyway, they charged me for it and put in the 3 new addresses on the homestead page. Will see if it works.
thanks for the advice -
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