by Matt
Domain Registration and Mapping
It’s here: you can now use your own custom domain with your WordPress.com blog. For example, if your blog was currently at example.wordpress.com you could buy example.com from us and we would automatically move your blog over and redirect all your links and readers to the new domain.
How does this work? Well to get started go to Options > Domains. You can enter the domain you want in the box at the top.
If the domain isn’t registered, it will ask you for some information and then register it for you, and add domain mapping, for $15/yr.
If you already own a domain you registered somewhere else, you can map it for $10/yr. The next screen will tell you how to change the DNS nameservers on your domain to point to WordPress, and once you do that your domain should be live within a few hours.
That’s it!
This is pretty new, and somewhat technical functionality. If you have any questions at all don’t hesitate to contact support using the feedback tab at the top-right of your dashboard, and one of the team will get back to you immediately. Congrats to Andy for his great work on this oft-requested feature.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:40 am
Alright, getting 10 bucks out and doing this now!
October 24th, 2006 at 4:03 am
super du-awesome! I wanna I wanna this for christmas!
October 24th, 2006 at 4:12 am
Pretty fancy, Andy. I can see this being a pretty big feature. I started a WP.com blog so I could blog about WordPress, so it doesn’t really make sense to me. I like having “wordpress” in my blog’s URL!
October 24th, 2006 at 4:20 am
Great job guys! Question: could you buy and map to something other than “example.com”, or is it limited to the wordpress.com subdomain currently being used?
October 24th, 2006 at 4:20 am
Ummm…What about International users? PayPal I suppose
October 24th, 2006 at 4:24 am
I would do this if I had the means to.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:27 am
Is there a way to pay for that which does NOT involve credit cards or Paypal (which need a credit card for you to register)? Cuz some of us bloggers are not, like, up on that credit card thing…
October 24th, 2006 at 4:28 am
The other post mentioned that some random blogs will be given new domains from wordpress… is that happening? Will I get it
October 24th, 2006 at 4:38 am
Awesome feature.. been waiting for this =p
October 24th, 2006 at 4:53 am
Great, I will do it!
October 24th, 2006 at 4:55 am
This is my graceland sir.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:55 am
Exactly what are the advantages of having your own domain? Will your blog be more search engine friendly?
I don’t really understand …. yes I am having a dumb moment!
V
October 24th, 2006 at 5:01 am
Sankar, it’s happening. I got the first one (and don’t I feel special!).
October 24th, 2006 at 5:07 am
Gr8.. Thanks..
I’m not able to access this URL “https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr”.. How should i do???
October 24th, 2006 at 5:08 am
[...] El equipo de WordPress ha estado trabajando mucho para habilitar esta opción y ya está lista. Ahora puedes cambiar la URL de tu blog en WordPress. Por ejemplo, puedes renombrar tu dominio “tublog.wordpress.com” por uno como “tudominio.com” o “blog.tudominio.com”. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 5:10 am
Cool.. Thanks.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:13 am
I don’t own a domain anymore but if I decide to in the future it will be here. Thx!
October 24th, 2006 at 5:34 am
Cool. What about our subscribers? Does their RSS sub get lost for them when we make this move or is some sort of redirect feasible?
October 24th, 2006 at 5:40 am
YDS, good question. Your WordPress domain (”example.wordpress.com”
can be completely different than the domain you map it to (”crazypants.invalid”).
October 24th, 2006 at 5:41 am
Hey guys! This is great!
But I’ll keep my .wordpress.com domain =) I like it!
October 24th, 2006 at 5:42 am
[...] Όπως ανακοινώθηκε νωρίτερα σήμερα, στο wordpress.com δίνεται πλέον η δυνατότητα να χρησιμοποιήσει κανείς το δικό του domain name, χωρίς να χρειαστεί να κάνει καμία άλλη αλλαγή. Το κόστος βέβαια για το domain name ειναι 15$ το χρόνο ή αν κάποιος ήδη έχει το δικό του domain 10$ το χρόνο για το mapping. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 5:47 am
livingjourney, there is no technical advantages. It is an image thang.
Also, horror-upon-horror, if you ever wanted to leave WordPress.com, you would not have to change the URL everyone already knows your blog as.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:53 am
Gail Ann Williams, Andy has worked long and long
so the important details like RSS subscriptions keep on truckin if choose to domain map.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:54 am
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October 24th, 2006 at 6:44 am
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October 24th, 2006 at 6:48 am
This is so cool.
October 24th, 2006 at 6:50 am
why can’t we have domain.info??
October 24th, 2006 at 6:52 am
What happens with services where we have registered the worpress.com URL or with our (shudder) Google page rank?
I assume we need to re-register and lose PR, but just wanted to check what the implications are.
October 24th, 2006 at 6:53 am
0nkulis: we are having some issues with domains outside of .com .net and .org. You will be able to map any domain soon; we aren’t going to support registering them here, but you can still use them if you register them with another registrar.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:09 am
Bravo, WordPress Domain Registration and Mapping a reality…Thanks
October 24th, 2006 at 7:21 am
Question about Andy’s comment above. I’ve got a .co.uk domain registered elsewhere. Can I map my domain across now?
October 24th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Some people have reported a custom domain getting more search engine referrals than a wordpress.com subdomain, but honestly I think they should be about the same.
October 24th, 2006 at 8:34 am
With regards to the earlier comment about Google Pagerank, it will probably go down for a couple of weeks, but since we have the redirect it will come back. Also all of Google’s links to your old site will work just fine when people click them.
October 24th, 2006 at 8:35 am
Great news today! Although I think I will keep my wordpress “tail”. It is much cooler this way
October 24th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Great work - very impressed! Only issue is it seems that there’s an issue around logging in - I no longer get the ‘bar’ across the top of the screen using my new domain name (which was working within minutes of ordering!), I click ‘Login’ and am taken straight to the admin panel - so I’m clearly logged in already, it seems the admin panel still uses the .wordpress.com address, so I wonder whether this is what’s causing the conflict…
Other than that tremendous - decent price for the domain name too, given that you’re doing the directing too!
October 24th, 2006 at 9:23 am
Thanks Andy, I allready registrated onkulis.com and 0nkulis.com from wp… thanks for great service…
October 24th, 2006 at 9:23 am
Awesome! Just got myself one..
October 24th, 2006 at 10:12 am
hey wordpress¡
this new feature rox all our sox¡
i wanted to ask u one favour..
wordpress bloggers cannot use anything to show “online” visitors..
eg: 46 online
i think this would be a really wonderful enhancement to all the sexy ywordpress sidebars, something to think about?
October 24th, 2006 at 10:16 am
how about css. is it included in that price
October 24th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Yeehaa! I’ll be doing this. A great feature for a great price.
Question: will changing to a new domain name mess up our Google search hits, or our Google rank? For some reason I’ve got a Google rank of “5″ right now, which I can only guess is because my blog is associated with WordPress. Once I switch to a new domain name, I lose all those positive associations and my Google hits drop, yes?
October 24th, 2006 at 10:44 am
I keep trying to register the domain i want but it keeps saying “something went wrong, contact support” what do I do? who is this support, how do I contact them?
October 24th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Matt, if we map it to our domain I assume we can still access it from the wordpress.com url (foo.wordpress.com)?
October 24th, 2006 at 11:22 am
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October 24th, 2006 at 11:48 am
i don’t understand
October 24th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Now this is simply AWESOME. Guess I will buy soon 2 domains from you guys. Just need to verify what are the payment options, as I am in Moscow.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
[...] o wordpress.com decidiu, hoje, um dia depois de deixar o hosting do maiquesaite, comecar a vender dominios e fazer o mapping de quem jah tem um dominio registado. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Very impressive!!! I’m doing this!
October 24th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
You made my day!!! Thank you!
October 24th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
I have a site that’s hosted elsewhere. I can forward this to my site? So it will be my domain name without the wordpress.com at the end?
Tx,
Henrietta
October 24th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
If I register a domain through WordPress, whose name will it be in? Will there be difficulties if I ever want to move the domain elsewhere?
October 24th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
I might do this ince I’ve owned a domain for about 7 years… I’m a bit concerned about what would happen if I decide to stop mapping… what would happen to all the links? Would they just end up defunct?
October 24th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
^^ This is what I want to know before taking the plunge.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
You guys rock, I’ve set mine up and it works perfectly! thanks again for making such a great service even better
October 24th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Is there a guide more complete than this post?
I mean, something that explains in more words…
October 24th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Yay! http://www.beatsentropy.com
Paypal can work with debit cards as well.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
When you register they ask you for your real name, address, phone number.
This is what a WHOIS lookup returns:
http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=beatsentropy&tld=com
It looks like it is registered to your real name
October 24th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Ok, you can get full registration information based on the domain here
http://who.securepaynet.net/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=BEATSENTROPY.COM&prog_id=391143
October 24th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
The domains are registered in your name with the details you give, and if you ever want to move it elsewhere you are completely free to!
Capt, you can contact support by using the “feedback” link in the top right of every dashboard page.
the forester, like I said in my earlier comment, your old domain will redirect to the new one so all your pagerank and links and visitors will transfer to the new domain over time.
Rushi, you can still go to foo.wordpress.com, it’ll just redirect you to your new name.
Your dashboard will always be on WordPress.com, so that way we can secure your passwords with SSL.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Made the change today, the transition is seamless. Excellent work. Another reason among many to love WordPress.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
kewl.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
It’s working really good! Thanks!
October 24th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
I’ve been waiting for this feature, thanks!.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
woohoo!
October 24th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Баясгалан, customizing CSS is still a separate upgrade.
October 24th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
My blog got deleted once, because I had links to my companys home page and some ads in it. Is it ok to display ads, when I use my own domain?
October 24th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Tauno, the same ToS apply, so today that still means ads are not allowed.
October 24th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
[...] Serwis WordPress.com umożliwia już podpięcie własnej domeny do hostowanego bloga. Dotychczas opcja ta była dostępna dla nielicznych beta-testerów - teraz może skorzystać z niej każdy. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
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October 24th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Sounds really neato, I think a little more documentation is needed here, cause I’d like to have a bit more knowledge about this before I plunge on in!
October 24th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
[...] Today, WordPress.com released yet another feature: domain registration and mapping. This basically lets WordPress.com users use their own domain name for their blog. If you don’t already have a domain name bought, you can buy one through your blog dashboard. Once the domain name propagates (it took mine about 2 minutes), you can make your domain name the primary address for your blog. WordPress.com automagically redirects to the correct address. So, getting a domain name for your WP.com blog won’t break all of the links to your posts. People will just be directed to your posts at your new address. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
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October 24th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
I grabbed a domain via your new system earlier today, and it worked flawlessly (as usual).
Yet again, awesome work. You folks really do rock.
October 24th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
What is exactly is mapping?
October 24th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
[...] Domain mapping is now here. Frequently asked questions about it here soon. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 12:33 am
I just opened 2 new blogs that I’m not ready to start using now, just so I could buy the new domain names that I want to have.
It was pretty smooth. After purchase, you might want to add a line to the directions indicating how long people should expect to wait before it’s working (only a few minutes; but it doesn’t hurt to know that before trying it).
Also, on the new domains, I don’t have the menu bar on the top of the page for dashboards, new posts, etc. I need to go to login to reach the dashboard, and I don’t see anyplace with a menu of all my dashboards. Not a big deal.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:12 am
[...] Also on the dashboard, I see that WordPress.com is doing custom domains now. I’m not switching to one (justinrudd.com is already taken), but I might look at it to host my wife’s food blog. All the pictures are self-hosted so I wouldn’t have to worry about storage or using their bandwidth for the pictures. But WordPress’s servers are much snappier than the shared one she is on right now. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 3:25 am
hmmmm should i? shouldnt i?
October 25th, 2006 at 4:47 am
Yippee! Finally no need to go host hunting if I want my own domain name! Add another added upgrade to customize your blog and I’ll convert!
October 25th, 2006 at 5:44 am
I purchased iowaboyblog.com today and it redirected within moments. The process was flawless and fast. However the ‘www’iowaboyblog.com isn’t working. I noticed, while visiting other sites who purchased and redirected domains today, that their sites are redirecting to example.com even when I use the ‘www’ prefix. How can I get this ‘www’ redirect to work on my site?
October 25th, 2006 at 6:38 am
Update: I should have waited for the propagation to complete before asking. My ‘www’ redirect is working now. Thanks WP team for making the redirect process so easy.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:25 am
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October 25th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Like others have said, I am quite proud of having wordpress.com in my domain so I think I’ll leave it! But nice feature anyway.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:02 am
[...] Look up… no a bit more.. not that far! Look what the lovely people at WordPress have set up for us - Domain Mapping! The last piece is in place for my blog. I’m getting good traffic, I’m enjoying writing and exploring new ideas and I now have my domain in place! Don’t worry, none of you have to do anything. WordPress has made it all so simple. all of my links have been updated across and everything is working seamlessly. I exported my blog to back it up anyway (WP again, all comments, posts and categories backed up with the click of a button) but it all went according to plan. It’s here: you can now use your own custom domain with your WordPress.com blog. For example, if your blog was currently at example.wordpress.com you could buy example.com from us and we would automatically move your blog over and redirect all your links and readers to the new domain. Domain Registration and Mapping « WordPress.com: [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Excelente!, sin embargo estoy de acuerdo con Mark Jaquith: no cambio por nada el “.wordpress.com” de mi blog, no tienen idea lo mucho que algunos apreciamos y valoramos esta palabra en nuestro blog. De todas maneras me parece una buena opción para muchos. Felicitaciones.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
[...] O wordpress acaba de anunciar a possibilidade de aquisicão de domínio próprio - a solucao ideal para quem pretende ter o seu blogue alojado como http://www.omeublogue.com em vez do actual blog.wordpress.com mas não quer ou não sabe lidar com o processo de alojamento, registo de domínio e actualizacao constante do software. Por apenas 15 dolares/ano até que fiquei tentado mas o domínio http://www.mouronacosta.com nao me seduz. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
I’m on it! Thanks, WordPress Wizards!
October 25th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Thanks! I’m so excited!
October 25th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
I got a domain via your new system last night and it went excellently smooth! Thanks for the hard work and the great feature!!!
October 25th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
[...] Et bien maintenant, je viens de lire sur le blog officiel de WordPress que vous pouvez directement acheter votre nom de domaine WordPress sur le site de WordPress. Par exemple, si l’adresse de votre blog est “monblog.wordpress.com”, WordPress vous proposera d’acheter le nom de domaine “monblog.com” pour la modique somme de 15$/an. Décidément, la communauté WordPress accompagne les utilisateurs jusqu’au bout… Et les incite à dépenser des sous. Pour ma part, je pense qu’acheter le nom de domaine directement chez l’hébergeur reviendra moins cher. wordpress domain #fuzzvotediv .fuzzvotebtn { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; cursor: pointer; cursor: hand; height: 43px; width:40px; background: no-repeat url(http://www.fuzz.fr/img/fuzzvote1.gif); text-align: center; font-weight: bold; } #fuzzvotediv .fuzzvotebtn .note{color: #000;margin:0; padding:2px 0 0 1px; width: 100%; text-align: center; line-height:11px;} #fuzzvotediv .fuzzvotebtn .voter{color: #fff;margin:0; padding:1px 0 0 1px; width: 100%; text-align: center;} [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
[...] Everyone’s talking about WordPress’s announcement yesterday that they’re going to handle domains now. Well, okay, not everyone. Actually, nobody here at work even mentioned it today. But, I like the idea, and I’ll be supporting commondream.net rather than forwarding when you go to that URL here very soon. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Even though it costs much more, I’d rather pay for you guys to host than download WordPress onto my server because when it comes to anything programming, I’m stuck. I have another domain which I’ll be hooking to my own server soon, (a friend will be helping me), but that is going to be for my work and I want this to be something completely separate and unrelated. Hehehe, and having a pseudonym is cooler.
Oh, and to everyone else, I’d rather have my own username than a subdomain…
October 25th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
WordPress.com Now Does Domains
Things just keep getting better for WordPress.com users. Back in August, the WordPress crew unveiled the custom CSS upgrade for WordPress.com bloggers. Now, WordPress.com users may use their own domain or register a new one to pair with their blog. Th…
October 25th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
cool.. .
October 25th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
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October 26th, 2006 at 12:18 am
I like the shorter URLs and all. Am I an early adapter? I’ve always hanted to have a simple first-level domain for my blog, but I’m not that technical to host my own…
October 26th, 2006 at 12:24 am
[...] I am one of the first to pay for the new WordPress domain-hosting, so I shorted my URL from daijinryuu.wordpress.com to just daijinryuu.com. The old address and all its uris will just point to the new ones. [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 1:11 am
Great job on the domain reg. One question: are you guys going to include email at some point. Right now if I change the DNS servers to sign up for the Domain reg. I loose my email forwarding. Probably others have this same problem.
Thanks!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:02 am
[...] Si posees ya un dominio que registrate en alguna parte, lo puede hacer por $10/yr. La pantalla siguiente te dirá cómo cambiar los nameservers del DNS en tu dominio que apunte a WordPress, y luego tu dominio estara funcionando en una horas. Mas informacion en WordPress.com/blog Deje su comentarios Aqui [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 2:04 am
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October 26th, 2006 at 3:24 am
[...] WordPress family now has a full bouquet of products. But its not only the tool, the WordPress.com is now offering all the services for hosting your blog. You can now have your own domain name for WordPress.com blog along with the CSS Upgrade feature. You can choose the VIP hosting if you expect high traffic on your blog. Full marks to the Automattic team which works behind the scenes on all this. [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 4:46 am
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October 26th, 2006 at 4:47 am
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October 26th, 2006 at 9:19 am
[...] So now WordPress.com has given us the opportunity to purchase a domain through them, and forward our wordpress.com blog to it. Or whatever they do….(Details here) [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 10:40 am
[...] WordPress.com just opened up a new service that allows users to register domains and have domains mapped to their WordPress.com blog. If you have always desired a WordPress blog hosted under your own domain name, yet were unwilling to pay the somewhat higher prices necessary to obtain quality hosting, then this fantastic opportunity might just be what you have been searching for. It’s here: you can now use your own custom domain with your WordPress.com blog. For example, if your blog was currently at example.wordpress.com you could buy example.com from us and we would automatically move your blog over and redirect all your links and readers to the new domain. [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 10:50 am
This is just one other great feature. It builds credibility. I’m gonna get mine too.
Thanks a great deal guys. You ROCK!!!
October 26th, 2006 at 11:45 am
[...] WordPress.com + Your Domain Only $10/year Matt of WordPress.com has announced domain registration and mapping for their blogging service — $10/year if you already have a domain registered, or $15/year if you register through them. Very well priced service on a very scalable platform. I’ll sign up if I don’t already have more blog sites than I can currently handle. Tagged in Blog, Domain, Quickies, WordPress | Thu, 26 October 2006 9:45 pm [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
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October 26th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Oh sweet! I already have a domain registered from earlier this year, but I’ll double check when the year is up. So I can possibly match it through here to renew both when time comes. Yay!
You guys are the best!!!
October 26th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
[...] It seems that the free wordpress account at WordPress.com now can use their new Domain Mapping feature with just $10 / year if you already registered your domain elsewhere. But if you don’t have a domain name, you can also buy it from them for $15 .. at first i was interested on using it .. but because they prefer the no-www version of your domain name as you can see right here and here , i decided not to use it .. yeah i know that’s just a simple reason but as you can see right here .. i prefer to use www version of my domain name .. for example try typing http://reaper-x.com and you’ll see you’ll get redirected automatically to http://www.reaper-x.com but in wordpress.com no matter what your preference is, you’ll get redirected automatically to the non-www version .. but that’s depend on your domain name actually .. if it’s for me http://www.reaper-x.com looks best … [...]
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October 26th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
kewl!!! any security issues about this?
October 26th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
[...] Due to some continued, cool features that WordPress keeps adding, today I am making some changes with tweblog.com that will change this blog’s URL and will affect all tweblog.com email. Previously I had several email addresses listed with tweblog.com. They were all forwarding to toby@getsch.net. As of a few minutes ago, all of those are gone. Now, no email sent to anything at tweblog.com will go through. [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
[...] Well, just like Josh I thought buying a domain from wordpress.com was a great idea of supporting the wordpress community. [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
What would happen then if someone uses the old URL? Would he be automatically redirected or what?
October 26th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
This is really cool!
October 26th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
[...] I wonder what’s going to happen to the wordpress.com Alexa, now that we have domain mapping and most of the highest-traffic blogs will move to their own domains. « MU Goes Gold [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Is possible to obtain more accurate stats -or use some javascript like statcounter or sitemeter- if the user move to this option?
In all case, this sounds great.
October 27th, 2006 at 1:25 am
[...] Domain Registration and Mapping « WordPress.com (tags: WordPress Mapping News domains) [...]
October 27th, 2006 at 7:31 am
[...] Regular readers may already have realized that I’m a WordPress.com fan boy. Anyone who has come from Blogspot will tell you how good things are over here (not that there isn’t the occasional problem – I’m the reason the Delete Post button turns red when you hover over it). I don’t post about every new feature that hits wordpress.com, but I thought people might be interested in finding out more about the latest paid upgrade from the point of view of someone who’s using it.WordPress.com introduced Domain Registration and Mapping this week (Raincoaster got the first one). The price is reasonable at $10 USD/year for domain mapping or $15 USD/year for domain mapping and registration — and it fits in with their business model of world-class hosting for free with premium upgrades for power users. Some friends and I had been talking about getting beatsentropy.com for several months and our laziness paid off with a much simpler solution. [...]
October 27th, 2006 at 10:22 am
[...] You can find the full story here at WordPress.com [...]
October 27th, 2006 at 11:20 am
zoiks!
Perfect, and I honestly see the sense in paying for this (even though I know the tech behind, it is a definate value add) and I completely love your business model.
Great work, and good luck, you sharp brained maniacs.
October 28th, 2006 at 10:23 am
[...] As soon as I heard that great news (”Domain Registration and Mapping”
announced by Matt, I decided to buy my owned domain for my blog that I love. Pricing is also reasonable. It’s just $15/year. Okie.. Let’s get one domain! [...]
October 29th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
[...] Earlier last week, wordpress.com announced that users can get their own custom domains hosted by wordpress.com. What does this mean? For instance, instead of me having 69mb.wordpress.com I can register a domain through and have it hosted by wordpress.com like 69mb.com or whatever I like for only 1200/- a year. Yay? The bad news, at least for some of us, is that they only accept payments via paypal and if you do not live in one of these select countries(how did Togo get into this list?) then - drat! I guess I can always get one of my diaspora pals to do this for me(I knew there was a purpose for these guys). [...]
October 29th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
[...] Domain Registration and Mapping « WordPress.com [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 12:29 am
[...] 1. Blog ini kembali. Selepas ‘down‘ selama lebih 24 jam pada 27-28 Oktober baru-baru ini. Kepada pengunjung (kalau ada) yang cuba mengakses blog ini pada tarikh berkenaan, dan tidak berjaya, saya pohon maaf. Sedikit kesilapan teknikal berlaku dalam proses pemindahan sepenuhnya blog ini dari http://mudin001.wordpress.com ke domain http://mudin001.com. [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
I was waiting hundred years for this
October 31st, 2006 at 6:10 pm
I have this and its superb!!!
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:29 am
[...] WordPress.com now allows domain registration and mapping (so now you can use WP.com as a platform on your own domain for $10 per year or $25 if you need a new domain) - very very cool - watch out TypePad! [...]
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:59 am
That’s great. My blog now has a new address which doesn’t say something.wordpress.com. That’s one reason why I switched to WordPress from Blogger a few months ago.
November 5th, 2006 at 8:09 am
Thanks for the info… but i love wordpress very much.
i may consider your point for my next project.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:34 am
[...] I am managing my techie frustrations rather well. In the last week I set up a Flickr account … I still need to organize my sets. I will put a link in my sidebar soon … before I go on holiday, I promise. I can evn blog a post from my flickr account. Anybody notice how frequently pictures appear in my blog posts??? I also managed to register and map my own domain … look at the URL. Doesn’t that look cool YOU GO, GIRL!!!! [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
[...] Matt announced this feature while I was buried under a pile of grading. You can have a custom domain (e.g., custdom.com) and point it to a WordPress.com blog. It costs $15/year if you both register and map the domain through WP.com, or $10/year for mapping a domain you already have registered. [...]
November 9th, 2006 at 11:21 am
[...] At last! Now you can use your own domain name with the excellent wordpress.com service. Actually this is pretty old news now - I almost missed this because I was on holiday and only just noticed it because Scoble has started using ’scoble.com’ in his permalinks. [...]
November 10th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
[...] WordPress.com: Domain Registration and Mapping You can now use your own domain on your WordPress.com blog. [...]
November 10th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
[...] WordPress.com users can now map an existing domain to your xxxxxx.wordpress.com blog. [...]
November 15th, 2006 at 8:31 am
[...] So I used wordpress.com’s Domain Mapping feature to get boonehfiedgeek.com. Paid thru PayPal. Niftyness. [...]
November 16th, 2006 at 11:18 am
[...] So I used wordpress.com’s Domain Mapping feature to get boonehfiedgeek.com. Paid thru PayPal. Niftyness. Up next: upgrade this to 2.0.5 so that I can export all my entries here and then import them over to WP.com. Thank the gods IBM doesn’t use a proxy or block about 80% of the Internet. Still, I’m grateful this one isn’t blocked. I’m dying of boredom. [...]
November 19th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
[...] I keep on thinking about moving my main blog here. Now that WordPress.com supports domain mapping I could point changingway.net to this blog and be up and running again (although there are of course issues of exporting and importing data). [...]
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:29 pm
[...] Mentioned this before but the time is now. I’m just about to use the domain mapping feature offered by WordPress.com. Originally wanted to attach this blog directly to my domain name (geekwithfibroids.com) but doing so would cause me to lose my geekwithfibroids.com email addresses. So, I’ll have to use a subdomain. This will actually work to my advantage as The Master Plan comes together. (Yeah, you can stick some crazy-sounding “mad scientist” laughter here.) [...]
December 14th, 2006 at 10:05 am
So I’ll for sure lose my email addresses if I switch the nameservers over to wordpress.com? Is there any way to fix this or will a fix be released in the near future?
October 31st, 2007 at 2:14 pm
[...] a domain registrar, configuring and managing stuff, until I came across this nice feature called “domain mapping” offered by WordPress.com, which basically takes care of everything for you. All you need to do is pick a domain name and [...]
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:43 pm
[...] but with WordPress.com, it is dead easy (it works as well if you have your WordPress.com blog mapped to your own domain). Here’s [...]
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:29 am
[...] you combine that with their domain mapping for $10/year I’m wondering why I bother with paying about $120/year having DreamHost host [...]
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
[...] your blog and then use domain mapping to add it to your blog. Instructions: Blogger, TypePad, WordPress.com. Social Bookmarking Filed under Blogging by admin Permalink • Print • Email [...]
April 21st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
[...] biedt gratis hosting en voor een kleine fee kan je ook je eigen domeinnaam of je eigen stylesheet gebruiken. Nadelen: af en toe staat er reclame, en je kan geen eigen [...]
April 29th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
[...] immediately that this probably costs money). What I discovered at the premium features page for Domain Registration and Mapping [...]
May 6th, 2008 at 8:39 am
[...] wie bei einer normalen Website. Eine eigene Domain inkl. Domain Mapping kostet 15 USD pro Jahr ( wordpress.com/blog/2006/10/24/domain-mapping-registration/ ). Zahlung mit PayPal ist möglich. E-Mail Nutzung unter dieser Domain ist möglich über Google [...]
May 7th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
[...] I mapped my domain on WordPress using this method and waited for the DNS propagation. However, much as I love Matt Mullenweg, this is a VERY [...]
May 7th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
[...] with a URL like ‘interactionsomething.wordpress.com’. Or, if it’s important, set up a redirect to another URL, for $15 [...]