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  lpickles123 · Member · Jun 26, 2015 at 10:16 pm

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  Hi – I bought a URL and I think I did the domain mapping. (At least, I paid for it). I want the site to move from exceliam.wordpress.com to just exceliam.com. How do I go about doing this?

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 26, 2015 at 10:37 pm

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  That domain appears to be available for registration.

  All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.

  Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  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.

  See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
  http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

  IMPORTANT NOTE: 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.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 26, 2015 at 10:38 pm

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  lpickles123 · Member · Jun 26, 2015 at 11:02 pm

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  Thanks for the info, timethief!

  Hmm I’m currently logged into my wordpress account and when I click on “go to site”, it takes me right to exceliam.wordpress.com.

  As far as domain mapping, if I had already purchased a URL, does that mean I didn’t need to purchase domain mapping for $13? Both exceliam.com and exceliam.wordpress.com are empty websites, technically. Oops.

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  brookedot · Member · Jun 27, 2015 at 5:29 am

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  Hi there,

  I have looked into your records, the domain exceliam.com was purcused with GoDaddy but is not mapped to any WordPress.com sites.

  To map the domain to your site, exceliam.wordpress.com follow this guide:

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