WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Setting up my DNS to point to my blog http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-my-dns-to-point-to-my-blog WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Setting up my DNS to point to my blog en Mon, 20 May 2013 13:55:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 astrydmoore on "Setting up my DNS to point to my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-my-dns-to-point-to-my-blog#post-59071 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:37:18 +0000 astrydmoore 59071@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hmmm, drmike, I'm curious about that. I don't understand why using blog.astrydmoore.com does not require access to wp.com's nameservers, but using http://www.astrydmoore.com does...?

]]> astrydmoore on "Setting up my DNS to point to my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-my-dns-to-point-to-my-blog#post-59061 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:15:36 +0000 astrydmoore 59061@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry -- I should have said "it's a shame I can't ... without hosting it myself" :-)

]]> drmike on "Setting up my DNS to point to my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-my-dns-to-point-to-my-blog#post-59060 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:14:15 +0000 drmike 59060@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The issue is that you would have to have access to wp.com's nameservers to make those modifications and that's a security concern.

]]> astrydmoore on "Setting up my DNS to point to my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-my-dns-to-point-to-my-blog#post-59058 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:12:56 +0000 astrydmoore 59058@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry -- I should have said "it's a shame I can't ... without hosting it myself" :-)

]]> drmike on "Setting up my DNS to point to my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-my-dns-to-point-to-my-blog#post-59011 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:28:14 +0000 drmike 59011@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sure you can -> http://wordpress.org

Regards,
-drmike

]]> astrydmoore on "Setting up my DNS to point to my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-my-dns-to-point-to-my-blog#post-58989 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:47:02 +0000 astrydmoore 58989@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OK, I'm sorry, I should have read more before I posted.

On a more thorough reading of the domain mapping section of the FAQ I found instructions on setting up a CNAME record.

It's a shame I can't have my blog at http://www.astrydmoore.com though...

]]> astrydmoore on "Setting up my DNS to point to my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/setting-up-my-dns-to-point-to-my-blog#post-58987 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:23:17 +0000 astrydmoore 58987@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

I have registered a domain and am hosting it (DNS and mail forwarding) elsewhere. I'd like to get http://www.astrydmoore.com to point to my blog. I understand that I have to use the "domains" upgrade to do this, but it's not clear to me from the interface how to achieve what I want without using wordpress's nameservers, which I don't want to do.

What entry / entries do I have to add to my DNS in order to achieve this? Can I just create an A or CNAME record for http://www.astrydmoore.com and point it at wordpress.com somehow?

I used "feedback" to ask this question but didn't get a reply, so I thought perhaps I was supposed to ask here. Apologies if this is the wrong place.

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