Change nameservers

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  grovechurch · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:21 am

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  Whar happens in between me changing the nameservers and paying for the domain to be mapped?

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

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  dreamsburnred · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:29 am

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  If its at wordpress.com your blog will stay live.

  After its been changed your wp blog (blog.wordpress.com) will redirect to blogdomain.com

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  dreamsburnred · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:33 am

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  The url you provided http://www.grovechurch.com/ is not loaded (SERVFAIL/NXDOMAIN).

  Seems wordpress.com has not caught up to your domain. It should within 1 hour or 1 day.

  What is the wp.com blog url?

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  grovechurch · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:36 am

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  Let me back up. I am looking at this support page:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  Step one is changing the nameservers to wordpress’s nameservers. Step two is to have it mapped. What happens if you complete step one and don’t do step two?

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  dreamsburnred · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:37 am

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  If you don’t do step 2. WordPress will have control of the domain name but won’t be able to use it.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:48 am

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  @grovechurch
  Please be aware of something that I will share with you. This is the current active url http://grovechurch.wordpress.com/ Do you notice that the antiquainted “www” does not exist in it? No wordpress.com urls have “www” in them. Well, you have your username linked to http://www.grovechurch.com and it’s a bad url that cannot be loaded. Are you sure you didn’t purchase http://grovechurch.com ?

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  dreamsburnred · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:53 am

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  www. will redirect to no www. so its the same domain.

  ( * Looking for who is responsible for root zone and followed h.root-servers.net.
  * Looking for who is responsible for com and followed g.gtld-servers.net.
  * Looking for who is responsible for grovechurch.com and followed ns2.wordpress.com.

  Nameservers for grovechurch.com:

  * ns1.wordpress.com returned (NORECORDS)
  * ns2.wordpress.com returned (NORECORDS)
  * ns3.wordpress.com returned (NORECORDS))

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  grovechurch · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:55 am

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  the wordpress url is grovechurch.wordpress.com

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  timethief · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:56 am

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  Thanks ;)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 3:58 am

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  “the wordpress url is grovechurch.wordpress.com”

  I know :) I posted it as a clickable link above http://grovechurch.wordpress.com/

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  grovechurch · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 4:01 am

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  I guess if you change your nameservers to wordpress’s nameservers, but don’t have it mapped, it will just come up as undeliverable as it is now.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 4:05 am

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  Yes, you have to pay for the mapping upgrade or it will never work.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 4:07 am

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  “I guess if you change your nameservers to wordpress’s nameservers, but don’t have it mapped, it will just come up as undeliverable as it is now. “

  Yes, that’s what dreamsburnred indicated above.

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  grovechurch · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 4:08 am

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  Ok, thanks!

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  grovechurch · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 4:08 am

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  I was trying to see if it would simply redirect the site, but now I see that redirecting is a different procedure.

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  dreamsburnred · Member · Dec 26, 2009 at 4:12 am

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  Your host should be able to set up a redirect. It has nothing to do with the name servers.