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  wbpm2015 · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 11:52 pm

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  We have a domain registered elsewhere and want to point it at our website at wordpress.com. We are unable to use DNS management to do this, and would like to do it via an A-Record. Can you please advise is this possible, and if so, what is the IP address we can use for the A-Record.
  Much thanks
  Phil Solomon

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 11:57 pm

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  Hi Phil,

  We don’t have a single IP address for your site since we have your site on a number of geographically-diverse servers to improve speed and uptime.

  Since we change out the IPs we use based on when different datacenters/server go online, we don’t suggest using IP addresses.

  Our suggested route is to map your domain (by adding it via the Store > My Domains page on your site’s dashboard), add the MX records currently on your site to our Store > My Domains > Edit DNS, and then change your nameservers to WordPress.com.

  However, if you still want to go ahead and map your domain using A records, please be sure to create at least two, pointing to the two IPs from the list below.

  • 192.0.78.12
  • 192.0.78.13