my own domain name

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  danishcid · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 10:01 am

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  I have an existing domain and want to use that and I know that I will have to pay $13 each year to wordpress.com, is it the only price that i need to pay to wordpress or do i have to pay anything extra too and how much space would i be getting

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  timethief · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 1:12 am

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  This has zero to do with space allocation. A domain mapping upgrade changes the URLs and nothing else. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/ There are no visit limitations on any blogs without or without upgrades. There are no bandwidth charges.

  See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.

  Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading

  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 that 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.