Signed up for .com defaulted to WordPress.com

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  janetgriebel · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 1:13 am

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  I signed up for a .com and it defaulted towordpress.com.

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 3:15 am

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  Yes, it will do that. The free blogs here all have URLs of whatever.wordpress.com format. If you want a .com address, you have to buy it, and then pay for domain mapping to attach it to the blog. .com addresses are not free.

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  janetgriebel · Member · Jan 11, 2015 at 5:24 pm

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  And how do I do that. I clicked on buy it when I signed up and it gave no purchase option but said it was available

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  timethief · Member · Jan 11, 2015 at 6:26 pm

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  Hi there,
  If you want to purchase domain mapping upgrade then read and act on what follows.

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

  You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.

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

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

  After you do the primary blog set up 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.