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  designsbylaila · Member · Sep 28, 2014 at 8:22 pm

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  Hi, I really like WordPress and I just unlocked my domain from Yola and mapped it to WordPress for an upgrade. I’m a bit lost and have some questions. It’s telling me in red that DNS needs to be updated, I dont know what that means? When choosing a free theme, more than once it told me I am “unauthorized” to use them…..? I also want to have only ONE primary blog/ website, and I guess I have three blogs going? All I want to do is just get started on my website and go….Please help?!

  Thank you,
  Laila

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  timethief · Member · Sep 28, 2014 at 8:26 pm

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  This site http://designsbylaila.com/is not hosted by WordPress.COM and There is no domain mapping upgrade for designsbylaila.com. If you would like to use this domain you will first need to set up domain mapping.

  WordPress.com provides free blogs and free hosting for them. WordPress.com does not accept domain name transfers but mapping to an existing domain can be done.

  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.

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

  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. 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.

  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.