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  barefootkel · Member · Nov 17, 2015 at 3:34 am

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  My registrar requires A record for DNS. How do I get this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Nov 17, 2015 at 6:33 am

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  Hi there.

  The best way to map a domain to a WordPress.com blog is to set your domain’s name servers to the following values:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM

  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM

  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  However, if your registrar requires that you create A records, please note that our IPs change over time. Because of this, your domain might stop working at some point in the future. If that happens, please get in touch with us to find out the most current IPs and then update your A records, accordingly.

  If you still want to map your domain using A records, please be sure to create two records using these IP addresses:

  192.0.78.25

  192.0.78.24

  Thanks!

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  barefootkel · Member · Nov 17, 2015 at 2:22 pm

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  Thank you so much for your help!
  It kinda worked. It’s redirecting to this page:
  http://i.imgur.com/xVApu7B.jpg
  What am I doing wrong?

  Here are my entries:
  http://i.imgur.com/ZSuRhts.jpg

  Thanks again!!

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Nov 17, 2015 at 4:36 pm

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  Well, you have to map the domain to WordPress.com as well:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

  In order to do that, you must purchase a domain mapping subscription. Our support page above provides the instructions to get that set up.

  Let me know if you have any other questions.

  Thanks!

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  barefootkel · Member · Nov 18, 2015 at 1:51 am

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  I tried that, but I’m getting this message:
  http://i.imgur.com/fniE2Jw.jpg

  I’m guessing it’s because it’s not a domain you support.

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Nov 18, 2015 at 3:21 am

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  I’m guessing it’s because it’s not a domain you support.

  We do, but I have to add it from my end.

  I was able to map barefootwanderlu.st for you. You’ll still need to do a few things:

  1) Purchase the subscription here by renewing:
  https://wordpress.com/my-upgrades

  2) If you haven’t done so already, point the domain to our name servers:

  ns1.wordpress.com
  ns2.wordpress.com
  ns3.wordpress.com

  3) After giving that a few hours to take effect, set the domain as primary under https://wordpress.com/my-domains

  Let us know if you need more help!