Masking domain

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  fbnfz · Member · Mar 1, 2020 at 3:10 pm

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  Hi, I have built a website mysite.wordpress.com and I’d like to map mysite.com – which I own – to it. Fine till here.
  But I would also like to keep mysite.com URL when user lands on it, instead of showing mysite.wordpress.it
  How can I do that?

  Thanks!

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  themagicrobot · Member · Mar 1, 2020 at 5:36 pm

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  Then masking isn’t the answer. You need to upgrade your WordPress.com site to a Personal plan or higher. Then you can correctly map your domain to the WordPress.com site. That will show the correct address to visitors and also give your domain a secure SSL connection.

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  fbnfz · Member · Mar 1, 2020 at 5:57 pm

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  Yes, upgrading is the plan.
  But I am not transferring the domain. I just want to make sure that mapping it to the WordPress.com site will maintain the domain URL.
  It is currently pointing to medium but still medium.com/Mysite will show up.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Mar 2, 2020 at 10:52 am

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  Hi @fbnfz, once you’ve mapped your custom domain to your WordPress.com site, the domain will load your site hosted here.

  That is, if you set the new custom domain as your primary one, whoever goes to mysite.com, will land on mysite.wordpress.com :)

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

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  fbnfz · Member · Mar 2, 2020 at 11:12 am

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  Thanks staff-mckluskey, that’s what I want to avoid.
  I assume transferring domain to wordpress would solve the problem?

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  fstat · Staff · Mar 2, 2020 at 1:35 pm

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  Hi there,

  It doesn’t matter if you map or transfer your domain. What matters is to set your domain as primary. Then your .wordpress.com will be hidden and all traffic will automatically redirect to your custom domain. You can read more here:

  Domains

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  themagicrobot · Member · Mar 2, 2020 at 1:37 pm

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  Note that it was already explained that you cannot transfer a .it domain to a WordPress.com site:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transferring-a-it-domain/

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  fstat · Staff · Mar 2, 2020 at 1:53 pm

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  Thanks @themagicrobot!