Problem for buy a domain

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  benedettacastellini · Member · Oct 6, 2013 at 9:58 pm

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  Hello,
  I would like to buy benedettacastellini.com domain for my blog (benedettacastellini.wordpress.com), but in the store page appears this message: “This domain is already mapped” and I cannot buy the domain that I want. Please can you help me?
  Thanks.
  Benedetta

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  timethief · Member · Oct 6, 2013 at 10:10 pm

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  There is no domain mapping upgrade for benedettacastellini.com. If you would like to use this domain you will first need to set up domain mapping.

  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 if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  See here is you do already own the domain you stated above > 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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  timethief · Member · Oct 6, 2013 at 10:11 pm

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  P.S. This thread is tagged for a Staff follow-up.

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  eurello · Staff · Oct 7, 2013 at 10:11 pm

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  Thanks Timethief. :)

  benedettacastellini, that domain is actually available to register, but it was previously mapped here and there was still a record of it. I’ve removed that, so you should now be able to register it in this way:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/register-domain/#instructions-for-registering-a-new-domain-for-your-blog

  Let me know if you still have trouble!