incorrect info

  • brandtadvertising · Member ·

    you have my domain name incorrect
    should be – http://www.BrandtAdvertising.com
    not – http://www.BrandtAdvertisingdotcom
    Also, I already have this domain so I don’t need it from WordPress
    and I do not want to map it but can’t seem to get past that page if you can please help

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • timethief · Member ·

    Hi there,
    Domain forwarding is not supported and as wordpress.COM hosted sites do not have permanent IP addresses it will fail.

    Domain mapping is not done free of charge. The charge is $13 per year for mapping an existing domain that you already own.

    re: mapping an existing domain
    Important Notes Before Upgrading
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading

    All wordpress.com blogs are on .wordpress.com subdomains.
    WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible.

    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/

    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 also renew the domain mapping purchase here, each and every year.

    NOTE: 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 do not register a .wordpress.com blog URL first then the software supplies the dot whatever URL so you can proceed with your domain mapping purchase.

    See https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

    Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/

    Your only options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

    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.

  • timethief · Member ·

    All www URLs on mapped domains seamlessly redirect to the same content under the URL without the redundant “www” which has not been required for a decade. The software will continue to strip out the redunant and unnecessary www if you are entering it.

    Be aware that www is an old protocol from way back when the web was new and everything was under separate server hardware. www (www.example.com) was the web server, mail (mail.example.com) was the mail server, ftp (ftp.example.com) was the FTP server, print (print.example.com) was the print server, etc.

    These days, everything is run under the web server, making www. redundant and a waste of four characters.

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