DNS with go daddy

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  degies · Member · Apr 27, 2014 at 12:20 pm

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  My domain is with GoDaddy and that includes the name servers. What IP must I add for the www A record in the DNS setting for my site on wordpress to display correctly?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 30, 2014 at 1:21 am

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  The best way to map a domain to a WordPress.com blog is to set your domain’s nameservers 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 go ahead and map your domain using A records, please be sure to create at least two, pointing to two different IPs from the list below:
  192.0.80.250
  76.74.254.120
  66.155.11.238
  192.0.81.250
  76.74.254.123
  66.155.9.238

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  degies · Member · May 2, 2014 at 6:50 am

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  I will try the ip’s, but I will definitely not move the name servers. Will this work for a mapped domain as well as the default subdomain?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · May 2, 2014 at 2:20 pm

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  Will this work for a mapped domain as well as the default subdomain?

  I’m not sure that I understand what you are asking. Can you rephrase?

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  degies · Member · May 4, 2014 at 2:32 am

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  If I create the www A record for my wordpress domain will it only work if I map my own.com domain? or will it work for my own.wordpress.com domain? I addd the Ip’s to an A record on the domain , bit it did not seem to work

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · May 6, 2014 at 4:02 am

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  When you have a mapped domain, your wordpress.com domain is automatically forwarded to your mapped domain. So as long as your mapped domain is pointing correctly, everything will work the way you are wanting it to.

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  degies · Member · May 12, 2014 at 10:14 am

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  I tried this, but it did not help. I surmise one needs to purchase the mapped domain add on. The domain is with GoDaddy and they have a forwarder option I am going to try

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · May 12, 2014 at 2:16 pm

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  I would not use the forwarder option myself, in general it doesn’t work as well as most people want. I think if you search the forums, you’ll find that most people’s experience with using a forwarder option is negative and they find the Domain Mapping to be a much better option.

  Different strokes for different folks however, and it may work fine for you.