Moving to wordpress.org and taking domain name purchased on wordpress.com
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I purchased a domain name through wordpress.com and my blog now holds my domain (bethhammond.com). I would like to move to wordpress.org. I have created a .org site on my local MAMP host. My next step is to move to a host. Do I need to take my domain name off of my .com blog before I can link it to a new host and move to the .org with my domain name. I can’t get a clear answer. Hostgator had no idea what I was talking about so I canceled with them. I was thinking of going with bluehost. Also, I have gone through all of the help questions and tutorials. None of them address my exact situation.
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Hi there. According to the instructions at https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-to-a-self-hosted-wordpress-site/view-all/ you can move your domain after moving your content, but that might depend on your host so check with them for the exact procedure.
I don’t think it matters very much whether you move your domain before or after you install WordPress.org and move your content. What matters more is that your hosting account has to be in place before you do either of these things, and your self-hosted site won’t appear online until you’ve made the domain transfer.
Keep in mind your site at your free WordPress.com address will remain as it is until you set that site to private or delete it – removing the domain won’t make it disappear as it is actually hosted at the free address. People just won’t see the custom domain in their browsers anymore.
The WordPress.org forum might be able to give you a more defininte answer on this, as they have more experience with this over there. http://wordpress.org/support/
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