mapping domain name

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  kguerradooley · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 6:40 pm

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  I already changed the server names in my godaddy domain name. I want to upload it to my wordpress account so that I can get started on my website. I do not see a “store” or “domain” link on my dashboard

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  elisedesaulniers · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 9:05 pm

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  You will find it under store / Domain.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 9:10 pm

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  You need to have an underlying .wordpress.com blog URL to domain map from to the domain URL.

  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 and purchase upgrades for it.
  

  After you make the domain mapping purchase here > Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades and 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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  timethief · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 9:11 pm

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  If you would like to use your domain name purchased elsewhere and map from your free hosted wordpress.com blog to it, then you will first need to set up domain mapping by using this process. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/