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  crownoflaurelleaves · Member · Nov 5, 2011 at 6:23 pm

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  I am wanting to register to own my domain. Will that change anything about my blog? Will I lose any comments, posts? Will I have to do anything to keep my blog up on my own?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2011 at 6:25 pm

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  Where is your blog please? Will you post an active link starting with http:// to it so we can answer your questions accurately?

  Also if you are referring to a free hosted WordPress.com blog then have you read the support documentation on domain mapping?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2011 at 6:31 pm

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  There is no loss of data of any kind when domain mapping is purchased and implemented. The data is still in the .wordpress.com sub-domain blog. What the domain mapping does is map all the original .wordpress.com sub-domain blog URLs to the same content under the new domain URLs. What your visitors experience is a seamless transfer between the two.

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  crownoflaurelleaves · Member · Nov 5, 2011 at 9:04 pm

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  yes my blog is http://crownoflaurelleaves.wordpress.com. as you can see, it is long, and i’d like it to be shortened. i just have no clue about stuff like you are mentioning. i have no idea what domain mapping even is. thanks for your reply

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2011 at 9:18 pm

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  You read the support documentation on domain mapping here > domain mapping