Making a blog with purchased domain name

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    abhay9793 · Member ·

    Sir,
    I purchased a domain “headlinebazar.com” from GoDaddy.com.
    Now I want to make a website on WordPress.com but I am facing problem. Is it once again billing required on WordPress also ??
    I want to proper info pls reply !

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

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    You need the WordPress.com Domain Mapping upgrade. This is the upgrade that you would purchase so that you could use an externally registered domain name with your WordPress.com site:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

    Take a look through that page and let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll be happy to help.

  • Unknown's avatar
    abhay9793 · Member ·

    Thanks alot !
    But I don’t know we need to pay for wordpress also ?
    For blogging business this is good or not ?

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    Yes you need to pay for a domain mapping upgrade.

    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 every year.

    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 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 blog and purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.

    If you own a domain then 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.

    All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. Payment methods are found at http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

    If you succeed at purchasing the domain mapping upgrade it will be reflected at these two spots:
    Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

    Dashboard > Store > Billing History

    View Your Billing History

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