With wordpress as my host may I have a .com and a.org url?
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With wordpress as my host – I don’t wish to self host – may I have mycoolwebsite.com and mycoolwebsite.org url? Will it be $18.00 or $36.00 annually.
In other words, it’s just one web site but would have both a .com and a .org url link to the web site. Thanks.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The way to make this work is to use the domain mapping upgrade to map one of the domains–the one you think of as your “primary” domain. That will cost $18.00 and is the part you already had figured out.
You can’t map two domains to the same site, but you can redirect the other domain to “point” to the site. That’s called a site re-direct.
What I’m not sure about is if you can register both domains through WordPress.com, or if you’ll need to register one somewhere else and set up the site redirect from there.
My guess is you can register both through WordPress, but the situation is unique enough that I’d feel better if we got an official staff ruling. I’ll mark this thread for staff assistance and one of the happiness engineers will stop by soon with an answer.
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Thank you, lizthefair, for your response. I appreciate it and look forward to hearing back from you when you have an answer for us :)
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You can register multiple domains and have them point to the same WordPress.com site. However, only one of those domains can be the “primary” domain that will display for users. abc.com abc.org and abc.net could all point to abc.wordpress.com, but only the one that you had set as the primary domain (let’s say abc.com) would display to viewers of your site.
Does that make sense?
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And to be clear, you can register as many of those domains through WordPress.co as you would like. Or you can use Domain Mapping to map domains registered elsewhere.
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Thank you, root josh.
Would I pay $18.00 only for the primary domain or would there be an $18 charge for each of the variants that point to the primary domain?
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I’m sorry, that really didn’t clear up your question.
I should have said:
It would cost $18 per domain for each one you wanted to register.
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No problem. Thanks for suffering through my needing double posts each time to get the correct info to you!
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