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  bannabannabanna · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 10:02 am

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  I have a working website http://www.maureensweddinggowns.com that I want to host on wordpress.
  I saw that there is a mapping fee of $13. After which one can choose Free, Premium or Business account options.
  My question is – if I choose Free account, after paying $13 can I use my already purchased domain name http://www.maureensweddinggowns.com as-is?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 6:16 pm

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  Yes. All you need to purchase is a domain mapping upgrade.

  re: mapping an existing domain
  WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible.

  Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made, it and the domain mapping purchase here, each and every year.

  Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually and a domain name purchase and domain mapping are included in the Premium upgrade bundle.

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL.

  If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the WordPress.COM blog, and as you own a domain URL already, you can see here for mapping an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  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.

  To import your content see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

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  bannabannabanna · Member · Oct 9, 2015 at 8:41 am

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  Thank you timethief currently I am trying to port and map. In case any question I shall update here. Here will be my steps
  1. Import all the contents to make http://www.maureensweddinggowns.wordpress.com exactly as http://www.maureensweddinggowns.com
  2. Purchase the $13/year mapping plan
  3. Map the DNS
  4. Wait till the mapping is done, one done –
  5. Now when user go to http://www.maureensweddinggowns.com it will see exactly the same page as earlier just that now it would be on wordpress.

  During the whole process I would still be using the Free hosting plan of wordpress