.com fwd

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    lfarhy1 · Member ·

    Hello,

    I purchased a .com awhile ago from Hover and it won’t expire until later this year. (I’m not even sure I want to keep it, hence the not mapping option)

    Anyways, originally I had it to where whenever someone typed in my .com it would redirect them over to my WordPress blog site.

    As of the past 48 hrs it’s not longer working and I can’t figure out why. I talked with Hover and they said it was an ip issued with my WordPress site. Can I not access the CNAME or my DNS for my WordPress blog? The .com is astayathomeblog.com and my WordPress site is astayathomeblog.wordpress.com

    Thanks,

    Laura

    Thank you,

    Laura Farhy

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

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    omkarbhagat · Member ·

    Hi Laura,

    I’m not 100% sure that I understand the problem but I’ll try to explain how things work and then try to relate them to what you described. Maybe that’ll clear things up a bit.

    Ok so let’s say, you have XYZ.wordpress.com site.
    Now you register XYZ.com domain some place else.

    If you want people to visit XYZ.com and access XYZ.wordpress.com then you can do two things –
    1) Map XYZ.com to XYZ.wordpress.com
    2) OR provide redirect from XYZ.com to XYZ.wordpress.com

    Mapping and Redirecting are two different things.

    But in simple layman terms, mapping is as good as merging XYZ.com and XYZ.wordpress.com into a single site accessible at XYZ.com address. While redirecting will treat these two sites as two different sites.

    In other words, if you have location A and location B, mapping will bring location B and location A into a single point of access. But redirecting will make your visitors go to location A first and then go to location B.

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    Now coming back to your case, I think you must’ve provided a REDIRECT. If that’s the case then the issue is not on WordPress.com’s side. If the redirect has stopped working, it is mostly an issue on Hover.

    The issue can only be at WordPress.com’s side if you map it here. More info on this page –
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

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    I hope this helps in some way.

    Do let us know if you have more questions :)

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