How To Register Your Domain Onto Your Contact Page

Every WordPress.com site comes with a free.wordpress.com address such asyourgroovysite.wordpress.com.

With a WordPress.com plan, you can add a custom domain proper noun such asyourgroovydomain.com and show it in the browser'due south address bar when someone visits your site. The free .wordpress.com address however works, but automatically redirects to your custom domain.

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Register a New Domain

To add a new domain to your site, follow these steps:

Go toUpgrades → Domains in the left sidebar of your site dashboard.
Click Add a domain and choose Search for a domain:

Blazon the domain you wish to annals in the search field.
- If you don't have a item domain in mind, you lot tin also search for keywords, and we will advise different options that friction match your keywords.
- You can besides click on the Filter push button if you want to search for domains matching your keywords using a specific extension we offer such equally .org, .net, .tv, and .weblog, for example:

Select button to select a domain from the search results. — Select domain from the search results.

If the domain is available, it will show upward beneath the search box. Click Select to choose the available domain.
In the next screen, choose if you'd like to add Professional person Email or Google Workspace email to your domain, or you can skip this step with the Skip button. You tin can always add e-mail to your domain afterward:

Screenshot of the domain registration process showing the screen to add Professional Email or Google Workspace to a domain. — Add or skip Professional Email or Google Workspace.

On the next screen, fill in the Domain Registration Information if prompted. Brand sure your contact information is right, and that y'all have access to the email address, equally you may need to verify information technology later.
Brand the payment to complete the registration and purchase a WordPress.com programme if you don't take one already.

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Setting the Primary Domain

You tin accept multiple domains connected to one website, so the principal domain is the domain that your visitors will see in their browser's address bar when they visit your site. All your other domains (including the .wordpress.com address) volition redirect to the primary domain.

With a paid plan, you tin set any domain equally the master domain.

To choose your site'south chief domain, go to Upgrades → Domains. You'll run across which domain is currently labeled equally principal:

The "primary site address" label is marked with an arrow.

To change the primary domain, click the ellipses (three dots) side by side to the domain you want to make chief, and click Make primary site accost.

If you prefer to use the complimentary .wordpress.com or .wpcomstaging.com site address as the primary domain, click the 3 dots next to your free address and select Make primary site address:

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Email Validation and Verification

When you are registering a domain name, make sure you are using a valid email accost in the Domain Registration Information. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) requires your contact information to be valid.

If the e-mail y'all use to register your domain is the same as the electronic mail associated with your WordPress.com account, your domain will exist automatically verified.

If you've used a dissimilar email address, please make sure to keep an eye on your email later you have registered the domain name. You will receive this e-mail notification for all domain purchases, both publicly and privately registered. The email will be sent from the domains-help@wordpress.com e-mail address.

It may take upwards to fifteen minutes for the domain to exist shown as verified once you click the Verify Now push in the email.

An example of the email notification is posted below:

If you do not receive this email notification, please do not hesitate to contact back up.

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If y'all practise non verify your electronic mail, ICANN (the governing body that regulates domain registrations) will suspend the domain name and your site will be offline until y'all verify the email address.

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Waiting for Domain Changes

The new domain should commencement working immediately in most cases, merely sometimes the domain may be unreliable in the first thirty minutes. In rare cases, there might exist a delay of 24-72 hours before your domain becomes agile.

This is often referred to every bit propagation time. During this fourth dimension, the domain may not load at all, but load sometimes, or load only in specific locations. This is because servers worldwide—from ICANN servers to local isp servers—are still existence updated.

Some servers only update one time or twice a 24-hour interval. We have no command over domain propagation and no way of speeding this process up. You tin can check on the propagation status of the domain by using a service such as whatsmydns.cyberspace.

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Other Things to Know

The annual and two-yr WordPress.com plans come with a costless domain name credit for one year of registration. When your plan and domain are upwardly for renewal, they will renew independently of each other. Review your Purchases page for renewal dates and costs.
It's not currently possible to purchase domains through the mobile app. All the same, you can utilise the mobile app to redeem the complimentary domain credit included with a paid WordPress.com plan.
Domain registrations tin be refunded within 96 hours.
Yous can discover the full list of supported domain extensions (TLDs) in the Domain Pricing and Available TLDs guide.
You can withal employ domains with other extensions with your WordPress.com site. You simply take to register them with a different registrar, and so connect them to your site.
If you already take a domain registered somewhere else, y'all tin connect your existing domain to your site or transfer it to WordPress.com. Yous can as well connect a subdomain to your site.

Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)

Your domain name is an Internationalized Domain Proper noun (IDN) if it contains linguistic communication-specific characters such as ä, û, ע, ж, 字, मा. Domain registration, transfers-in, and connecting for IDNs is not currently supported at WordPress.com.

Privacy protection is enabled by default on all the registered domains. GDPR has resulted in changes to WHOIS that, in many cases, volition forestall your contact information from existence publicly published. Please encounter the Domain Registrations and Privacy page for more details.

Nosotros are required past ICANN to collect valid contact information for each domain registered at WordPress.com. By and large, this data is considered required in guild for y'all to contract with us for domain registration services. We will send an email to the registrant contact electronic mail accost when consent for optional data elements is needed. Y'all will not have to consent share optional data in order to have your domain registered here. Y'all tin can read more than about domain registrations and privacy and managing consent here.

WWW Version of the Domain Name

WordPress.com has chosen the non-www version of your site as the canonical URL. While world wide web was required in the early on days of the net, it is no longer required or advantageous to utilize. Your site address tin still be reached at the www version of the domain name, but it will always redirect to the non-www version. This is for SEO reasons; search engines prefer one version of the site address is set every bit the approved URL because otherwise, they volition come across indistinguishable content.