Stuck in adding domain
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Hello,
I’m trying to set up a new website with a custom domain, but it gets totally stuck in the “Adding your domain” stage. What should I do?
Thanks,
Gonçalo -
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.
Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
See here if you do not own a domain
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/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/
Your payment methods are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
Your upgrade history will be here Dashboard > Store> My Upgrades
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/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.
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Thanks for the help. I wasn’t aware we needed to create first a example.wordpress.com domain and later on the personalized domain. Now is working! :)
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Actually you should be able to do both at once – I’m hoping to duplicate this issue but haven’t been able to yet. Creating a site first is a good workaround though if you need to get started right away.
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Hi, I am trying to add a new free domain: rvslive.wordpress.com but am stuck at the adding your domain page. I really appreciate your help with this. Thank you.
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I have the same problem and when I refresh, the domain name I had entered is now unavailable. How can I retrieve the original domain name? Thank you.
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Hi. I managed to setup a blog named rvslive.wordpress.com, but Im not sure thats what I had in mind. But this was setup within an existing domain in the domain management site on WP. I am a little confused about this type of setup for now but I am learning how to fix this. I still need suggestions on how to setup a new domain rvslive.wordpress.com or is it sufficient to use the newly created blog site. Thanks a lot, really.
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Hmm, thanks for letting us know.
@marianejobin, since you haven’t been able to register your site yet, I’ll contact you via email. I’d like to try setting it up on our side to see if we can duplicate this issue.
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