Transfer Your Google Domains to WordPress.com—On Us
We’re also matching Google’s pricing for top-level domains.
A domain is your most valuable online asset. A great domain name says something about you—your personality, your work, your creative spark. People understand this intuitively: when coming up with new ideas for a business or website, we don’t start with design or specific content. We start by giving it a name.
But if your domain name is currently with Google Domains, things recently became complicated. You may have heard that your account has been sold to Squarespace. Everything is expected to transfer and close later this year.
Fortunately for you, you’re not locked into that deal. And we think we can do better. For the first million domains that move from Google to WordPress.com, we’ll pay your transfer fee, which also extends your registration for an additional year.
That’s just the beginning. Here’s our commitment to you when you bring your domain from Google to WordPress.com:
- Your renewal price will be the same or even lower than what you were paying with Google Domains—and that goes for every one of the 400+ top-level domains (TLDs) we offer. This will also apply to existing WordPress.com customers across most domains, meaning that in many cases we’re lowering your prices!
- This isn’t a temporary thing. We’re committed to keeping domain prices low for new-to-us domains, and will only raise them if our wholesale costs go up (we’ll run our domains business like Costco).
You may know WordPress.com as a leading platform for building stunning websites, but we’ve been a domain name provider for over a decade. You don’t even need a site or hosting plan to manage your domains with us.
And you’re getting much more than just a URL:
- Performance: Our DNS speeds are faster than Google, GoDaddy, and DigitalOcean. But don’t take our word for it. Feel free to check for yourself at dnsperf.com.
- Privacy: Unlike at many other registrars, privacy protection is free. (There are a few exclusions for non-U.S. domains.)
- Security: We install SSL for free for all sites hosted with us. And when you host your site at WordPress.com, we provide serious security features to keep your site running smoothly such as real-time backups, one-click restores, malware scanning, WAF (web application firewall), DDOS mitigation, and more.
What it really comes down to is that WordPress.com, along with the larger Automattic family, is committed to the open and inclusive web. Our mission is to democratize publishing for the entire world. Ultimately, we will always support your ability to truly own your content and identity on the web.
And it all starts with your domain. Transfer now and we’ll pay for an additional year of registration if your domain is registered before 1 July 2023.
- August 1, 2023
- Domains
Why is this recording playing on ALL comments etc I’m opening? Even before I opened this post
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Hi Brenda 👋 I’d be glad to look into this. How are you viewing the post?
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On my phone, using Jetpack
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I was working my way through my notifications.
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Great. Thank you for that context. We’ll look into it.
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Hi Brenda, we’ve muted the video by default which should fix this issue. Please do let me know if you continue to have issues.
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I will do. Thanks Eric
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I went back and played the comment to my post where this was happening. Its still happening. Sorry
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What is the link to the domain renewal pricing?
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Hello Aladdin 👋
Our prices can be found at https://wordpress.com/support/domains/domain-pricing-and-available-tlds/.
In the transfer tool, we will also show you the pricing for each of the domains that you enter.
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Estimados WordPress.com News,
Espero que se encuentren bien. Me gustaría saber si podrían proporcionarme más información sobre el proceso de transferencia de dominio y cómo puedo comenzar.
Agradezco de antemano su atención y apoyo en este asunto.
Saludos cordiales, Werner Ward
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Hello Werner 👋
You can access the transfer flow at https://wordpress.com/setup/google-transfer which will also provide instructions on how to get started.
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Can I transfer my 1&1 domain at no charge?
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Thank you for letting us know about your interesting in transferring from 1&1. At the moment, the offer only applies to domains transferred from Google Domains.
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I hope that I am not taking on too much or more than I can handle.
My site is. RogerCummiskey.com
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I believe my domain is with WordPress not Google. Am I right?
Shelton Bissell
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Hi Shelton 👋
That is correct, your domain is already with WordPress.com.
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Hej, vad skulle det kosta om jag flyttade mina 2 domäner till er? Jag har en på svenska med å i månssonskultur
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If your domains are currently with Google Domains and can be transferred here, the transfer is free. It adds one year to your registration.
And you can find our standard domain pricing here. Let us know if you have questions!
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My domains is at a private web hotel in Sweden.
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OK. This promotion is just for Google Domains, but you’d be welcome to transfer your domains here if you’d like. Here’s how.
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How do I know who my domain is with? I always thought it was with WordPress. If that’s the case, do I need to do anything?
J
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No problem – your domain is safely here with us. This promotion is for people who have domains through Google.
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I transfered my domain to bluehost and not google.i dont underdtand this message. Kindly explain
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This announcement is for folks whose domains are through Google Domains. It sounds like you don’t, but if you know people who do, this is a great deal for them.
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What if you’re domain use with GoDaddy? Same deal if you transfer?
Karen
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Hello Karen, currently this offer only applies to domains transferred from Google Domains.
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That should have read “is with”
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I do not want WP.com at all I want WP.org
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Hello 👋 I’m sorry to hear that. But, I am glad to tell you that you can have your domains at WordPress.com and use them for a site that is hosted anywhere else.
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Great context. Thank you.
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done transfering mine. just one question: is there any plan in the future for “domain forwarding” feature like I previously had on google domains?
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Hi Wishnu,
We are considering requests for new features and will log your request. Thank you!
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Thank you, Eric.
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I transferred 3 domains over from Google Domains. My WordPress dashboard is still showing I need to verify my email address even though this has already been done via the verification email that was sent to me and all of my email forwarding for my transferred domains now doesn’t work. Any recourses to help with this? The chat in the dashboard is useless.
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Hey there, thanks for reaching out! You should be able to reach out for help here – but, let us know one of the domains you’ve transferred and we’ll look to retrace some steps and get you set up.
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Last year I move most of my domains from WordPress.com to Google since the prices went all up… now I move back! I’m glad the price is the same or even cheaper. Now, most of my domains are hosted here, except for that one linked to a Tumblr site, since is a “legacy domain” probably all settings will wear off if I move it.
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Awesome. How long is this promo going to last I think WordPress should offer more stuff for google domain customers.
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Hi Wesley, we’re currently limiting the promotion to the first 1 Million domains transferred. Is there specifically that you’d like to see for Google Domains customers?
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Like jetpack complete
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whoa this is a surprise, I’ll doing this soon then!
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1 year from the time the domain was planned to renew or 1 year from the time of transfer?
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Hey there! When the transfer to WordPress.com completes, your domain’s expiry date will be extended by an additional year. If you just renewed the domain with your current provider, you will not lose that renewal. We hope that helps!
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Ok thanks
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Did this today and it broke my site
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Hmmm, this shouldn’t have changed anything, since just transferring won’t change your name servers. Can you get in touch with support so we can take a look?
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Please help me
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Can you reach out to support with more context? We’d be glad to assist!
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Stop putting crap in my emails so annoying to delete them
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You should have an unsubscribe link, or you can manage your subscription email preferences here:
https://wordpress.com/me/notifications/subscriptions
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I have transferred three domain names to WordPress.com, coming from Google Domains. Everything went fine except a persistent alert in a site, telling me that my site “needs an update” that I have to “correct”. No other hint but the concerned site is using Cloudflare DNS. Is this the reason?
Thanks
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Thanks for letting us know! Can you reach out to support and share a link to the page where you’re seeing those alerts? You won’t want to change DNS settings unless you intend to change hosting.
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Hello, I did it, I’ve been told to clear the cache but nothing has changed.
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Ah! We’ll find that request and dig a little deeper. Thanks again.
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Thank you for this offer – I am certainly considering it. Another feature that was quite unique to Google was free email forwarding for the domains – will you be able to replicate it?
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Great question! We have email forwarding, but only for sites we host. It wouldn’t work with a standalone domain at this time, but we’ll share that feedback with the team. Thanks!
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I am super excited! Transfaring my two domains today!
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Once again, this is a very generous offer, but just to point out that if you do intend to match Google’s prices, £10 for a .com domain was inclusive of VAT in Google in the UK, whereas wp.com’s isn’t, so comes to £12.
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You need email forwarding for standalone domains, until you give that away, I will let google send me to squarespace.
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Great tips. Thank you!
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When I try to export my .co.uk domain from Google it asks me for your TAG but when I look at https://registrars.nominet.uk/uk-namespace/registrar-agreement/list-of-registrars/ your tag is not there. Does that mean I can’t transfer my .co.uk domain to you? 😦
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We can’t currently accept incoming .co.uk domains unfortunately.
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