Is WordPress a registrar, or must domain registration be paid elsewhere?
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I may soon try to set up for my wife a website as easy as possible for her to maintain. Including billing, if possible.
I maintain her current site, paying a registrar via login at one site (along with all the DNS and control panel handling, and on, and on…); and hosting at another (cpanel, FTP of various htm, css, js, php, and on, and on…).
I figure one basket at wordpress.com might be easy enough for her if I get run over by a semi. She’s an artist and needs an online gallery. Would wordpress.com serve as one-stop for domain-name-and-site billing?
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Hi there,
Would wordpress.com serve as one-stop for domain-name-and-site billing?
Even if you don’t get ran over by a semi (which is hopefully the case), WordPress.com sounds like a great place for your wife’s new site!
You can register a new domain through WordPress.com and have it connect automatically to your wife’s site:
WordPress.com is a great place for artists, musicians, photographers, and other creatives. Creating an online gallery is simple and we have a variety of options:
https://wordpress.com/portfolios/
For information on billing and payment methods, please visit our support doc:
Please let me know if you have any questions or issues.
Thanks!
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PS – if you have an existing custom domain name already registered – you can not transfer the domain name to WordPress.COM – they are not set up for incoming domain name transfers – the name will need to stay registered not at WordPress.COM
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Getting run over by a semi is a figurative way of talking about something having to do with aging. The PS presents a problem: her domain is indeed registered elsewhere. Could *I myself* perform a transfer, through some such finagling as destroying the domain name at the current registrar (removing it from the account on which I also have several others—in effect, “de-registering” it); wait for that to “propagate”; then register with WordPress? I’m not an ICANN rule insider, so I don’t know how it works.
As stated, the goal is to simplify and give her one place to logon for everything—including bill payments! Thanks for all your advice.
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Hi @apfwebs, it would be difficult. We aren’t able to accept incoming transfers at this point, and the only way to “un register” the domain would be to let it expire, wait 80 days in hopes the domain is released and not sold to someone else, then register it again here when it’s been completely deleted from the registry. It would be risky and there would be downtime.
If you’re wanting to go that route, could I suggest registering another similar domain here, and making that new domain primary? That would create a redirect to the new domain, signaling search engines to update their links. Then you wouldn’t be quite as affected by the downtime (or possible loss) of the older domain. If you are eventually able to register it new here, you could make it the primary domain again.
And I realize all of that sounds confusing, but we’d be happy to explain more if you need help.
Of course, the other option is to go ahead and add many years through the current registrar. And here’s to avoiding those semi trucks for now!
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