WordPress.com does domains

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WordPress.com does domains

by Jordan Running (RSS feed) Oct 25th 2006 at 1:25PM

WordPress.com has finally unveiled a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for for a long time: domain registration and mapping. Until now, your WordPress.com blog could only have an address like example.wordpress.com, but today you can set up your own domain name like example.com and have your WordPress.com blog show up there, which previously was only possible using lame tricks like redirection or frames. This is a trick TypePad and others have been doing for a long time, and which the WordPress.com folks have been promising for almost as long, so I'm happy to see it finally happening. If you already own a domain name, domain mapping will cost you $10 per year, or you can register one on the setup page for a total of $15 per year, which isn't a bad deal. As an added bonus, if you already have readers that know your .wordpress.com address, they'll automatically be redirected to your new domain name. Cool.

Tags: blogging, domain mapping, domain names, DomainMapping, DomainNames, domains, wordpress, wordpress.com

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

engtech said 2:49PM on 10-25-2006

I've already given it a spin with http://beatsentropy.com

It's a great service, and well worth the $15. The only redirect problem I had was with RSS feeds.

bored said 6:21PM on 10-25-2006

The problem is that if you already use the domain for email or subdomains for other things like wikis, you are out of look. But apparently they will let you have complete control of the domain down the road.

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