WordPress.com-hosted, Google-purchased domain?

  • Hello all! I’m considering entering into the WordPress community, but have some questions first.

    background:
    I already blog at https://www.SimpleMakes.com My blog is hosted by Google’s free Blogger/Blogspot service. I purchased the domain name from eNom, through Google. I access services like my email address using Google Apps.

    desired change:
    If possible, I would like to move my blog to WordPress. The plugins seem so much more powerful (and less buggy) than what I’m dealing with on Blogger. I would like to:
    1) keep https://www.SimpleMakes.com as the domain that my blog publishes to, and the one that’s in the address bar the whole time visitors click around my site.
    2) not have to buy a $5+ a month web hosting service (can’t afford it at this time… later, perhaps)

    perks:
    It would be preferable if I could keep:
    1) my google-mail @simplemakes.com e-mail address.
    2) permalinks to my current posts, even if I have to manually change all the post web addresses (I have less than 25 posts up)
    3) comments already on these posts, or else a link to them at the top of the comments list

    my question:
    Is this possible? I’ve read posts and forums about switching from site.blogspot.com to wordpress.com; I’ve read about changing custom domains to point at www.ads-software.com-hosted blogs (but they were not purchased through google, or else they purchased monthly web hosting); etc. But can I register for a simplemakes.wordpress.com account, change my domain settings to point at that site instead of simplemakes.blogspot.com, and then use a wordpress.com-hosted https://www.simplemakes.com with my google-apps-purchased domain name?

    Is the “mapping an existing domain name at $10/year” advanced feature an option? If so, after my year of domain-registration through Google Apps runs out, could I switch to the “Registering a domain name with WordPress at only $15/year” option?

    Thank you for any and all help. I’m not a technical professional, but learn fast and am willing to do lots of research.

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  • Wrong forum.
    Post in the wordpress.COM forum – we are the .ORG people…
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/

    Thread Starter simplyla

    (@simplyla)

    Thanks, I will do that – the reason I posted here is because until just an hour ago, I thought my only option was to use www.ads-software.com and buy web hosting. I just realized, though, that maybe wordpress.com can be used this way instead? I’ll go see ??

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