Transfer Domain to WordPress.com
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I’d like to move my existing registered domain from my current host to WordPress.com, and then cancel my account with the other host (they’re terrible). I see plenty of instructions about transferring FROM wordpress.com but now how to bring a domain INTO my new account here. Once I do that, I’ll upgrade my account here to a premium account here.
I don’t want to map an existing domain, since I plan to cancel the current host.
Thanks.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can point your domain here, but as for transferring domain management, WP.com does not accept incoming transfers. So yes, you DO want to map the domain. You can keep the domain with your current company without having to have hosting there. http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
Your other option is to just let the domain expire, pray to all the gods that you can get it back once it comes up for sale (hint: this never works) and buy it from your WP.com dashboard. I advise against that.
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WordPress.com provides free blogs and free hosting for them. WordPress.com does not accept domain name transfers but mapping to an existing domain can be done.
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.
Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
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. 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 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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