WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Subdomain Mapping without CNAMES (go daddy) http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/subdomain-mapping-without-cnames-go-daddy WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Subdomain Mapping without CNAMES (go daddy) en Sat, 25 May 2013 18:56:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 airodyssey on "Subdomain Mapping without CNAMES (go daddy)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/subdomain-mapping-without-cnames-go-daddy#post-812409 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:30:45 +0000 airodyssey 812409@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi. First of all, do you want to map a subdomain (example: blog.fountainfamilyblog.com) or an entire domain (example: fountainfamilyblog.com).

In either case, you MUST point the domain to WordPress.com first (a CNAME record for a subdomain, or nameservers for a domain)
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/

There's no other way around that message you are quoting. You MUST do the changes on your domain registrar's side first.

]]> dandjfountain on "Subdomain Mapping without CNAMES (go daddy)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/subdomain-mapping-without-cnames-go-daddy#post-812224 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:53:51 +0000 dandjfountain 812224@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've tried several times to add a subdomain to my account. I continue to get an error message saying "Someone (maybe you?) already registered subdomain.fountainfamilyblog.com, but the domain is not pointing to WordPress.com." I can't seem to get past this point to purchase the subdomain mapping. Why is this so difficult? All I want to do is drop the "wordpress.com" off my url. My site is registered with godaddy who said that they don't provide CNAMES, so I feel stuck! Please help!

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