upgrading from wordpress.com to just ".com"

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  bostongirl29 · Member · Feb 12, 2014 at 10:59 pm

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  if you upgrade from wordpress.com to just “.com,” will anyone visiting/searching your wordpress.com website be re-directed?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 12, 2014 at 11:05 pm

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  Yes that’s what domain mapping is for and exactly what it does. Before you go ahead with this please read this section very carefully > Domains – Important Notes Before Upgrading
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading

  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.

  After 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 from the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades.

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

  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.