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  racoonart · Member · Oct 30, 2019 at 11:20 pm

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  I have a website live and active on another provider (www.myname). I wish to build a new site in wordpress keeping the old one (www.myname) active until I am ready to lauch the new one with the original domain name. Is this possible?

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Oct 31, 2019 at 12:57 am

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  Hi there,

  That is not an issue – what you could do is create a site with a free WordPress.com blog address. You are assigned a .wordpress.com or a .home.blog subdomain whenever you create a site with WordPress.com, so you can just use that as the domain as you build the site and determine whether or not this is the platform you want to use. Once you are done developing the site, you can make the decision to transfer the domain over:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/incoming-domain-transfer/

  map and existing domain:

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

  Or even creating a new one:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/register-domain/

  Hope this helps,