URL Upgrade Question

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  myrestore · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 5:02 pm

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  If I upgrade and start using a custom domain, will my old example.wordpress.com domain still be active and functional as well?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 5:06 pm

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  Yes. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs. Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is.

  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, or you must already own the domain URL.

  You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.

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

  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/

  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.