New blog but with another domain

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  emmac6 · Member · May 22, 2015 at 4:08 pm

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  Hi great team!
  I already have a wordpress.com blog with my own domain [wordsandpeace.com]
  I want to create another blog on wordpress.com . For that blog #2, I would like to keep the domain name I already have and pay for [right now it’s a google site: http://rocksbyemmanuelle.com – once my 2nd wordpress blog is created, I will delete my google one]
  How do I do that for the domain?
  NB: I’m NOT asking help to transfer the content, just the pb of creating a 2nd blog and use the domain name I already pay for.
  a step-by-step would be very helpful
  Thanks

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  emmac6 · Member · May 22, 2015 at 4:09 pm

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  NB: the post automatically added that I need help with wordsandpeace.com. Not really, it’s just the name of mu current blog, but my question is about a second one

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  alexjgustafson · Member · May 22, 2015 at 6:46 pm

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  Hi there!

  First thing you’ll want to do is add a new free site on WordPress.com, using your same account. Here are steps for that:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/#adding-new-site to-an-existing-account

  Once you have the free site setup, you’ll need to map the domain rocksbyemmanuelle.com to your new site. This requires a domain mapping upgrade here at WordPress.com, and some settings changes where you bought the domain.

  Here’s the full guide:

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

  The trickiest step is #3, changing your domain’s name servers. Google has instructions on how to switch to custom name servers here:

  https://support.google.com/domains/answer/3290309?hl=en

  Following their instructions add these three name servers, all on different lines:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  After those changes it can be a few days before the mapping takes full effect.

  Let me know if you have more questions while setting that up. :)

  -Alex G.

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  emmac6 · Member · May 22, 2015 at 8:13 pm

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  Thanks so much Alex, I will try to work on this this week-end