transfer my domain from aruba hosting to wordpress hosting

• 

  angearcange · Member · Oct 1, 2015 at 1:39 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Hello,
  I have a domain that I have used for a long time, currently hosted with aruba.it .
  I would like to transfer it to wordpress with the 99euro a year option. My domain expires in 48 days. How can I transfer it to wordpress hosting. I do not want to renew with aruba. I want to use wordpress but with my domain.

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Oct 1, 2015 at 1:45 pm

  • Copy link

  WordPress.com does not accept incoming domain transfers at this time.

  If you do not wish to remain with your current registrar the best you can do is to transfer your custom domain to a different accredited registrar and map your domain to your WordPress.com website (which is?).

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

• 

  angearcange · Member · Oct 2, 2015 at 7:27 am

  • Copy link

  Thank you justjennifer. I’d like to keep the same name for my website. If I map it to wordpress as you suggest, do I need to

  first

  create a domain on wordpress? I haven’t created any blog or website on wordpress yet.

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Oct 2, 2015 at 9:34 am

  • Copy link

  Yes, before you can map an existing domain name you must register a WordPress.com site to map it to. https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/

  After you have created a WordPress.com site you can then continue with the Support doc I previously linked to for full instructions on how to map your domain to your site. This is a paid upgrade.

  Please also understand that you must renew your domain name independently of any upgrade you buy here. Don’t let your domain name expire!

  If you are not familiar with WordPress.com, I’d also suggest signing up for a site and giving it a whirl before buying the domain mapping upgrade here.

  For clarity’s sake, there are two flavors of WordPress, hosted WordPress.com, where we are, and the standalone WP software that you need to run on 3rd party hosting. You can read more about that here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Let us know if you need more help with any of that.

• 

  angearcange · Member · Oct 2, 2015 at 12:52 pm

  • Copy link

  Justjennifer, thank you again. That’s very clear. I know I have to renew my website with my server. I may create a new website on wordpress and just redirect from aruba.

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Oct 3, 2015 at 8:54 am

  • Copy link

  You are very welcome.

  If you would prefer to have your new WordPress.com site not available to the public while you experiment with it, you can change your site’s Privacy settings to Private and it will be visible only to you. https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Best wishes

• 

  angearcange · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 8:14 am

  • Copy link

  Thank you again. I did this as I choose a template.