Need help with domains

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  temperanceviewfarm · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 4:24 pm

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  I’m new to wordpress and am creating a website for a horse farm. They currently have their own website/domain with Storm web. They want to use the new wordpress site that I created instead of their old one, but want to keep the same dome name (www.temperanceviewfarm.com). What is the easiest way to do this? If I have the host of their old site delete it entirely, then buy the domain on wordpress…will they still be able to have their same domain name? This is the main concern..

  Any help with this would be appreciated, I’m in over my head.

  The site I’m trying to switch domains to is http://www.temperanceviewfarm.wordpress.com.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 5:16 pm

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  The way to proceed is to purchase a domain mapping upgrade from WordPress.com and map the existing domain to the free hosted WordPress.com blog.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
  Be sure to read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/#important-notes-before-upgrading