WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Mapping domain names http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-domain-names-1 WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Mapping domain names en Mon, 20 May 2013 08:51:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 kathrynwp on "Mapping domain names" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-domain-names-1#post-1069928 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:15:35 +0000 kathrynwp 1069928@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there - are you looking to map a subdomain of nhs.uk, for example blog.nhs.uk? If so, you can do that by using a CNAME record.

Here are the instructions on mapping a subdomain:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/

If that's not what your goal is, could you please provide some further details about what you're trying to accomplish so we can help? Thanks very much.

]]> auxclass on "Mapping domain names" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-domain-names-1#post-1068080 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:44:28 +0000 auxclass 1068080@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Depending on what you are doing - a .uk domain name needs a zone record added for the name servers to be changed for the mapping to work - while you can do mapping with static IP addresses WordPress.COM discourages that method and will not guarantee that their IP addresses will stay static nor will they notify you if they change the IP address which is why they prefer the change name server method of mapping.

See below for domain mapping help if you have not already reviewed them.

I have also flagged this for the staff to help you

http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

]]> westsussexknowledge on "Mapping domain names" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mapping-domain-names-1#post-1068048 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:54:02 +0000 westsussexknowledge 1068048@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Want to map a government-owned domain name (xxx.nhs.uk) to a WordPress blog but the support team cannot set up the record in the way outlined in WordPress.com (i.e. to DNS nameservers). They would need to point the domain as an A record to the IP address of the web server that the Word Press site uses. How can I get this data from WordPress?

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