Paying for my own domain?
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How come I have to pay for my domain when I already paid for it? How can I avoid paint $13 a year ON TOP of paying for my domain via Godaddy? It doesn’t make any sense.
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Hi there,
There is no relationship between WordPress.COM and GoDaddy. It does make sense. You paid Godadday to own the domain name only for one year when you have to renew it. If you want WordPress.COM to provide a domain mapping service from the free blog they provided for you at http://artzealous.wordpress.com/ and are free hosting for you, then you pay for domain mapping to your domain URL every year as well. -
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.
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I do not care what Tumblr does. I am answering WordPress.COM support questions. You asked about WordPress.COM and I provided the correct answer. If you want a microblog then go to Tumblr please and best wishes to you.
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I was simply making a statement to better understand. Your responses are very rude. Going to report you, Thanks!
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I’ve blogger for over 10 years and have Tumblr blogs too silly. Please do go ahead and report me for providing accurate and polite answers to everyone including you.
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