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1. Elizabeth O
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I signed up for free on wordpress.com then upgraded to have my own domain on wordpress.com. It is hosted by wordpress.com, but I purchased a hosting account with godaddy to host my new domain instead, and now I can't figure out how to switch it from wordpress.com to godaddy. I want to be able to launch my site with wordpress.org. Do I have to make a special request from wordpress.com to change my nameserver to godaddy? Do I just have to redirect it? (I thought I was already paying wordpress.com to redirect it when I purchased the domain for $25?)

   I have already looked at this link:

   http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/

   And this one:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-of-wordpressorg-onto-same-domain-as-wordpresscom?replies=4

   And this one:

   http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/

   And this one:

   http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/01/03/how-to-move-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/

   This is not about redirecting my blog to my already purchased domain. I've found plenty of forum articles about this topic. I need to know how to get my wordpress.com domain from wordpress.com to godaddy for self-hosting.

   Please let me know if I'm being a total jerk and should be posting on the wordpress.com forums instead. Just thought you guys would have a better handle on this than the .com people. :)

2. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You need to update the domains DNS record to point to GoDaddy's nameservers. Follow this guide:

   http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/#update-nameservers

3. Elizabeth O
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You friggin rock. Thank you! :D

4. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You're welcome!

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