Do you have to purchase a domain from WordPress? What if I already have a domain

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  whitneybearr · Member · Jul 18, 2013 at 6:11 pm

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  I am switching from blogger to WordPress and already have a domain name, can I use it?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 18, 2013 at 9:46 pm

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  Yes. If you would like to use your domain to map to from your free hosted wordpress.com blog to it then you will first need to set up domain mapping. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  After you make the domain mapping purchase here > Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades and do the primary blog set up 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.

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