DNS entry

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  ianmcgowanillustration · Member · Nov 26, 2020 at 8:23 am

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  My domain registrar will only accept IP addresses for DNS entries. The usual WordPress nameservers won’t do. WordPress advises me to contact their support team to obtain a suitable IP address. When I click on the ‘support team’ button and it brings me here. Anyone help?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Nov 26, 2020 at 1:05 pm

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  Hi there,

  If your registrar doesn’t allow you to change the name servers, add two A records to your DNS with the following IPs:

  192.0.78.24

  192.0.78.25

  Also add a CNAME record to point the www subdomain to your WordPress.com URL, ianmcgowanillustration.wordpress.com

  Note that even if you use A records, you will still need a paid plan so you can add the domain mapping upgrade to complete the connection on this end:

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

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  ianmcgowanillustration · Member · Nov 26, 2020 at 9:11 pm

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  Many thanks Kokkieh. Hopefully, that should get me up and running.