Redirecting old wordpress.com blog to domain

[onlinesource]

I hosted a blog on wordpress.com for years that I mapped using a domain that I already owned. The blog would show up in Google listings as https://example.com because I assume Wordpress.com hosts every blog on a secured server?

I am now trying to get rid of this blog and instead redirect requests from example.com to example.org.

I went to my host and added the example.com domain to my account. When I go to http://example.com it redirects fine but https://example.com goes to a dead page. Will Google eventually update it's listing to show example.com with http or will it always stay as https? My host says that I need to purchase a SSL certificate to make https://example.com that way it loads from clicks that come through Google searches. Just trying to figure out how necessary this is.

[edited by: bill at 4:08 am (utc) on Jun 30, 2016]
[edit reason] Use EXAMPLE.COM [/edit]

[ergophobe]

You should not load a page over both http and https for the same reasons it should not work both with and without the 'www' - basic URL canonicalization.

The problem is that without a certificate, the request gets rejected before you even get to the point of running the redirects (at least I think that is what is happening to you - I've run across that recently in any case).

The simple way out of that just a few years ago would have been a self-signed certificate, but now you will get a browser warning that it can't be verified, so that only works for people who will click the "go there anyway" option.

So your easiest option is probably to get the cheapest cert you can from a certificate authority. You can get one for $5/year (there are free options too, but for a one-off cert, I find it's simpler just to get a cheap certificate).