Un-mapping a purchased domain from my original WordPress.com domain

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  missbrynna · Member · Sep 19, 2013 at 8:40 am

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  I started with a example.wordpress.com site and then purchased my own example.com domain and now I would like to delete the example.wordpress.com site and only be using the example.com domain. In other words, I need to unmap the personal domain from the wordpress domain…how do I do this without losing the personal, paid domain and its hosting?

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

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  eurello · Staff · Sep 19, 2013 at 6:43 pm

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  Hi Brynna – All sites here at WordPress.com have an underlying .wordpress.com URL. If your domain ever expires, your site will still be there at the underlying URL, but while you have a custom domain, you will only see that URL yourself in your Dashboard. All of your readers will only see the custom domain, brynnahargrove.com.

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  missbrynna · Member · Sep 19, 2013 at 7:03 pm

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  So it only looks like it’s still showing the other url to me? That makes sense, since I’m always logged in when I go to it. Thanks!

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  eurello · Staff · Sep 19, 2013 at 8:08 pm

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  Hi Brynna – You should see the correct one here: http://brynnahargrove.com/

  But you’ll still see the old one here:
  https://thewayfaringgirl.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

  If you still see the old one at that first link, try clearing your browser cache. :)

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  missbrynna · Member · Sep 19, 2013 at 8:23 pm

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  Ohhh okay. I was so confused for a while there. Thanks for clearing that all up :)