WordPress.com Forums » Tag: domain - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/domain WordPress.com Forums » Tag: domain - Recent Posts en Sat, 18 May 2013 11:36:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Moving to my own server" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/moving-to-my-own-server#post-1269931 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:29:41 +0000 timethief 1269931@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No. WordPress.org provides free software peer support forums only. They do not provide domain URLs. Every install is independent. You will have to purchase a domain name from a domain registar.

]]> timethief on "Newbie question (DNS setup)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/newbie-question-dns-setup#post-1269507 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:14:37 +0000 timethief 1269507@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The nameservers appear to be set up correctly for johnwinslow.org. But There is no primary domain set for johnwinslowdotorg.wordpress.com. This means that although johnwinslow.org will forward to the site, johnwinslow.org will appear in the browser address bar. To learn more about setting a primary domain, please see http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#setting-the-primary-domain

NOTE: It can take as long as 72 hours for DNS changes to become widely available. If you're still not seeing your site loading at johnwinslow.org, please wait a few more hours, clear your browser cache, and try again.

]]> johnwinslow2013 on "Newbie question (DNS setup)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/newbie-question-dns-setup#post-1269495 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:08:51 +0000 johnwinslow2013 1269495@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I purchased a premium account this morning on wordpress, which gave me the option to register a domain (so I chose johnwinslow.org). Going to the address now shows a 'server not found' message.

In the 'my upgrades' tab on the nav bar, it says 'DNS needs to be updated'. I have read through the support tab linked to the 'Edit DNS' page, but I am still perplexed. I figured that if i purchased hosting through WordPress, that the linking would be included. Every single tutorial video I have watched to try to figure this out assumes that the viewer purchased hosting of the domain through a third party beforehand (godaddy, etc), and that is where they get the information for the DNS.

Where do I find the info I need to map the DNS? Godaddy.com now claims that johnwinslow.org is already taken, so I'm at a loss as to which direction to head? Sorry for the newbie question.. I suppose I should have looked at this before making the purchase (but the wording/presentation in the 'premium' upgrade pitch makes it seem like it will be integrated and SIMPLE...)

]]> amightywp on "Multiple A Records - Can't Point WordPress Domain to GoDaddy Hosting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/multiple-a-records-cant-point-wordpress-domain-to-godaddy-hosting#post-1269359 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:53:30 +0000 amightywp 1269359@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Heya!

I've gone ahead and made that change for you. It does indeed require a change in your nameservers in the first place, so you'll receive an email about that, but at least your IP is now pointed at your shared hosting with GoDaddy.com.

So you know, in the future should GoDaddy perform any sort of migration for your site that results in a change of your IP, you'll need to let us know so that we can update your domain name to the new IP. This will allow your site to remain up!

]]> contemperamental on "Multiple A Records - Can't Point WordPress Domain to GoDaddy Hosting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/multiple-a-records-cant-point-wordpress-domain-to-godaddy-hosting#post-1269119 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:01:22 +0000 contemperamental 1269119@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The support person did not specify why the A record needed to be changed but insisted that this be changed before changing the name servers. I will definitely try changing the name servers without changing the A record if amightywp is not able to point the domain to GoDaddy!

Your suggestion is much appreciated!

]]> auxclass on "Multiple A Records - Can't Point WordPress Domain to GoDaddy Hosting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/multiple-a-records-cant-point-wordpress-domain-to-godaddy-hosting#post-1269112 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:56:31 +0000 auxclass 1269112@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Your mistake is Godaddy support - they should support the name servers - or at least the last several people that have moved their site to Godaddy just changed the name servers - did the one tech tell you why they wanted an A Record type change? The name servers are much easier to do and from what the staff have said in the past much more reliable -

]]> contemperamental on "Multiple A Records - Can't Point WordPress Domain to GoDaddy Hosting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/multiple-a-records-cant-point-wordpress-domain-to-godaddy-hosting#post-1269102 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:51:34 +0000 contemperamental 1269102@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I would love your assistance in changing the A record! I would like to see if this works first before changing the name servers as well but if the name servers must be changed in order for the domain to point to GoDaddy, please proceed with that as well.

Many thanks!

]]> raincoaster on "Conversion of wp blog and getting domain name?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/conversion-of-wp-blog-and-getting-domain-name#post-1269022 Fri, 17 May 2013 11:51:34 +0000 raincoaster 1269022@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sure. But I warn you if your ultimate goal is advertising income, WordAds is not going to be your best bet. It does not pay well. On the plus side, you don't have to buy hosting.

]]> infiniteamd on "Conversion of wp blog and getting domain name?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/conversion-of-wp-blog-and-getting-domain-name#post-1269014 Fri, 17 May 2013 11:32:36 +0000 infiniteamd 1269014@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks a lot for your information provided above:
After looking at above comments, I'm just briefing what I want:

- I'm current having a free wordpress blog(ex: abcd.wordpress.com.)
- Planning to change it to (ex: abcd.com) by purchasing custom domain(.com by paying $18)

- I just want to create my own contents under my blog and after getting good traffic, I want to earn money by advertisements etc.(mentioned here: http://wordads.co/).

- Will use a free theme with right-left menus etc.

- will add different categories etc, connecting my site to social media etc

I'm going towards right track or not?

]]> riyadhalnur on "Moving to my own server" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/moving-to-my-own-server#post-1268596 Thu, 16 May 2013 23:31:59 +0000 riyadhalnur 1268596@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the reply. One more question. If I make the move, can i get a name like myname.wordpress.org?

]]> amightywp on "Multiple A Records - Can't Point WordPress Domain to GoDaddy Hosting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/multiple-a-records-cant-point-wordpress-domain-to-godaddy-hosting#post-1268443 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:48:10 +0000 amightywp 1268443@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there,

Pointing your domain using A records is a somewhat complicated proposition in our system. I can do it for you however.

If you'd like me to go in and change your A record so it's pointed correctly towards that IP, I certainly can! Or you can change your nameserver as suggested by GoDaddy (and which I also suggest), by following this help article:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/change-name-servers/

]]> timethief on "Moving to my own server" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/moving-to-my-own-server#post-1268441 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:46:33 +0000 timethief 1268441@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Can I redirect this blog to the my server or does it go against policies?

That's the no can do.

]]> timethief on "Moving to my own server" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/moving-to-my-own-server#post-1268439 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:46:07 +0000 timethief 1268439@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You can move your content into a local install of WordPress>ORG software and get all support for it at WordPress.ORG. If you don't have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

]]> timethief on "Moving to my own server" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/moving-to-my-own-server#post-1268437 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:44:29 +0000 timethief 1268437@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's no can do.

]]> riyadhalnur on "Moving to my own server" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/moving-to-my-own-server#post-1268432 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:42:28 +0000 riyadhalnur 1268432@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I want to move my blog to my own server so that I can install a few plugins I require and my own custom theme. I would like to keep the myname.wordpress.com name intact though for obvious reasons. Can I redirect this blog to the my server or does it go against policies?

]]> timethief on "Multiple A Records - Can't Point WordPress Domain to GoDaddy Hosting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/multiple-a-records-cant-point-wordpress-domain-to-godaddy-hosting#post-1268423 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:39:08 +0000 timethief 1268423@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

]]> contemperamental on "Multiple A Records - Can't Point WordPress Domain to GoDaddy Hosting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/multiple-a-records-cant-point-wordpress-domain-to-godaddy-hosting#post-1267788 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:16:55 +0000 contemperamental 1267788@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi All,

Thank you in advance for your patience in assisting a WordPress newcomer.

I registered and purchased my .com domain through WordPress last month and recently purchased hosting through GoDaddy in order to install a custom theme.

In order to avoid the fee and wait time of transferring my domain to GoDaddy, GoDaddy says to change the A record to 173.201.93.1. One support person has told me to also change the Nameservers to NS31.domaincontrol.com and NS32.domaincontrol.com but another support person has told me to leave the name servers as the default WordPress ones. I have left them with WordPress but am now being told by GoDaddy that my domain is not pointing to their host because I have multiple A records attached to my DNS.

Can you tell me how I make sure there is only a single A record listed and if I should change the name servers to point to GoDaddy?

Thank you!

]]> oritsh on "Mapping blog to Domain i bought at Godaddy and use email account with Google" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-blog-to-domain-i-bought-at-godaddy-and-use-email-account-with-google#post-1267240 Thu, 16 May 2013 04:44:47 +0000 oritsh 1267240@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Great ! thanks again for your help tandava108 .

]]> mensalcoweb on "Add DNS record for mensalco.cl" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/add-dns-record-for-mensalcocl#post-1267015 Wed, 15 May 2013 23:07:27 +0000 mensalcoweb 1267015@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi @kardotim, thans for your reply!
Actually @amightywp from the staff is already helping me in another therad "domain & oither". He added a zone record, now I just have to wait.

Thanks anyway!

]]> tandava108 on "Mapping blog to Domain i bought at Godaddy and use email account with Google" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-blog-to-domain-i-bought-at-godaddy-and-use-email-account-with-google#post-1266351 Wed, 15 May 2013 16:29:09 +0000 tandava108 1266351@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, once you point the nameservers to WordPress then it doesn't matter where the domain is registered, the instructions will work

]]> oritsh on "Mapping blog to Domain i bought at Godaddy and use email account with Google" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-blog-to-domain-i-bought-at-godaddy-and-use-email-account-with-google#post-1266279 Wed, 15 May 2013 15:11:26 +0000 oritsh 1266279@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you tandave108. i have already saw the instruction and i understand i can conact the wp.com site to this email account, but it will we be ok togther with the mapping to the Godaddy domain ?

Thanks for your help

Orit

]]> tandava108 on "Mapping blog to Domain i bought at Godaddy and use email account with Google" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-blog-to-domain-i-bought-at-godaddy-and-use-email-account-with-google#post-1266148 Wed, 15 May 2013 12:25:04 +0000 tandava108 1266148@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, this is a common requirement. Instructions are here.

]]> oritsh on "Mapping blog to Domain i bought at Godaddy and use email account with Google" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-blog-to-domain-i-bought-at-godaddy-and-use-email-account-with-google#post-1266144 Wed, 15 May 2013 12:18:46 +0000 oritsh 1266144@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello,
I'm going to map one of my blogs to domain i bought at Godaddy. is it possible to make an email account for this domain with Google apps and make it all work together ?
Thanks fr your help,

Orit

]]> garykane2013 on "Subdomain of my domain onto another site..." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/subdomain-of-my-domain-onto-another-site#post-1265930 Wed, 15 May 2013 02:41:34 +0000 garykane2013 1265930@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there I was wondering if anyone had any advice, I intend to link my blog to a proboards forum. But I do not wish to transfer the domain the forum it will just be peripheral to my site.
Purchasing a domain and mapping onto the proboard doesn't solve the problem as it would still be a differant domain much as it is now. What I was looking to achieve is to create a subdomain of my current worpress one and use that to mask the proboards domain.
Would anyone know how to achieve this?

]]> macmanx on "Switching to blogger: domain mapping doesn't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/switching-to-blogger-domain-mapping-doesnt-work#post-1265450 Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:18 +0000 macmanx 1265450@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's set exactly as Google requested. Would you please check with them on this?

]]> timethief on "Cancel domain - URL revert to .wordpress.com?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cancel-domain-url-revert-to-wordpresscom#post-1265423 Tue, 14 May 2013 18:13:40 +0000 timethief 1265423@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Your domain wemeatagain.com expired 28 days ago. For more information on what your options are, please see this document.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-expiration/

]]> timethief on "Cancel domain - URL revert to .wordpress.com?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cancel-domain-url-revert-to-wordpresscom#post-1265422 Tue, 14 May 2013 18:12:16 +0000 timethief 1265422@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The content will not be lost but every domain URL to your content in search engine results and everywhere on the internet will no longer link to it. All the links will be broken and produce a 404 (page not found) when clicked.

The URLs will revert to .wordpress.com URLs. All authority and pagerank the blog earned under the domain URL will be gone and it will take about 3 months or so for search engines to index the content again under the .wordpress.com URLs.
See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/cancel-domain/

]]> wemeatagain on "Cancel domain - URL revert to .wordpress.com?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cancel-domain-url-revert-to-wordpresscom#post-1265416 Tue, 14 May 2013 18:06:29 +0000 wemeatagain 1265416@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My above domain has recently expired, and I want to cancel the domain, but not lose the content of the blog. I'm wondering if I actively cancel the domain, will the blog still exist, and just be housed at wemeatagain.wordpress.com or will it disappear entirely? Is there a way to cancel the domain without losing the content? I don't mind losing the domain URL itself.

Thank you!

]]> mdsalizadeh on "Switching to blogger: domain mapping doesn't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/switching-to-blogger-domain-mapping-doesnt-work#post-1265156 Tue, 14 May 2013 10:42:40 +0000 mdsalizadeh 1265156@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi! It has finally worked, thank god!

Only problem: only http://www.madeleinealizadeh.com works! Typing in madeleinealizadeh.com leads to a Error 404 page. What can I do?

]]> kardotim on "Add DNS record for mensalco.cl" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/add-dns-record-for-mensalcocl#post-1264944 Tue, 14 May 2013 00:51:33 +0000 kardotim 1264944@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Looks like you already have the domain mapping upgrade but the domain itself is not pointing to the WordPress.com name servers yet. Please go to your domain registrar's site and log into the control panel. You will need to update the name servers as below:

NS1.WORDPRESS.COM NS2.WORDPRESS.COM NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

For more information, please visit the help documentation provided by the registrar and our support page: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

Let us know if you have any questions!

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