WordAds custom domain?

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  umandel · Member · Dec 1, 2011 at 4:07 pm

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  If I have one complaint about WordPress, it’s that, most of the time, you write your information for technocrats, rather than for us ordinary folks who have a decent computer knowledge but are technically challenged. I am interested in WordAds. However, the moment you said ‘domain mapping’ (why not just: change your blog’s url to a domain url? and DNS, you lost me. The way I see it is that, if I sign up for a custom domain, my domain name at WordPress is no longer umandel.wordpress.com but umandel.com. Is this right?
  Also, this will cost me $17 a year, and if I want to keep the domain private, it’s $8 more. What does it mean to keep it private? I couldn’t find an explanation.
  Further, does Federated pick the ads to put on my blog, or do I have a say? I mean they may never be interested in my blog, but you never know. Do you have an example of what some of their ads look like?
  Thanks,
  Ursula
  Blog url: http://umandel.wordpress.com/

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  evarlese · Member · Dec 1, 2011 at 6:24 pm

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  Hi Ursula,

  With the domain mapping upgrade, you still have an underlying .wordpress.com URL. The custom domain name masks that URL, so to speak. For example, your current URL is umandel.wordpress.com — with the custom domain upgrade, you could map umandel.com to your WordPress.com blog, which would be the URL that visitors to your site would see.

  It is $17 per year for a public registration, and $25 per year for a private registration. For some more information on what a private registration does, please see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/#public-versus-private

  If you’d like to learn more about Federated Media and the types of ads they use, please see:
  http://www.federatedmedia.net/

  We also have a sample list of other websites that Federated Media works with on the application page:
  http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/