Will mapping to my domain cause problems with existing uses?

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  surrealtimes · Member · Jul 17, 2010 at 2:11 am

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  I own a parked domain (not a website) at Pair.com (registration and hosting paid through 2013). I have a basic FTP account with a couple mailboxes. I upload dozens of images a day and run customer email thought Pair to be read in a database program I use for online sales.

  I recently created a WordPress.com blog. If I pay the annual fee to change the domain name of my blog to the domain name I own, and I then go through the process of updating the domain name servers at Pair.com as instructed on WordPress, is there any chance this will mess up my current use of the domain for email and image hosting?

  Any tips and cautions would be appreciated.

  Thanks.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 17, 2010 at 2:46 am

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  You need to contact staff, but as I understand it the only way to maintain use of the top level domain name is to map your blog here to a subdomain of that main domain name so that it would be something like, blog.yourdomain.com. Otherwise, you will loose the ability to upload files. The email address could be done through google apps, but you would not have access to the files and such at pair.com unless you map to a subdomain.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

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  surrealtimes · Member · Jul 17, 2010 at 5:44 am

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  Thanks thesacredpath. I’ll contact both hosts.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 17, 2010 at 6:58 am

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  You’re welcome.