DNS/Google Apps question

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  evammesutam · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 8:52 am

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  okay, as with so many things wordpress, i don’t understand: if i’ve mapped a custom domain to my wordpress blog, and i’ve been using that domain for my email through Google Apps for a long time now, will my having changed my nameservers to NS1.WORDPRESS.COM, etc. break my email, requiring me to add email-related DNS records to the Custom DNS Records page for my domain here on wordpress, or would i only need to do that if i hadn’t long since set up my email through Google Apps?

  also, how do i make http://mydomain.com/ and http://www.mydomain.com/ both resolve to my blog?

  thank you.

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  evammesutam · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 8:57 am

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  actually it appears that the URL does resolve to my blog whether i type it with or without the “www.”, but it winds up displaying the URL without the “www.” and i’d like the “www.” to be included…i just prefer that. what do i change and where to make my blog’s default URL include the “www.”?

  thank you.

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  airodyssey · Member · Feb 26, 2011 at 12:09 am

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  Hi. In regards to Google Apps, here are the instructions to follow on your custom DNS records from your WordPress.com dashboard:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mx-records-for-google-apps?replies=30#post-536235

  As for the www, it’s normal that it dissapears, and to my knowledge, there is no way to retrieve it. See the “important notes”:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  I understand it’s a personal preference, but on the other hand, most URLs I see on ads and the like don’t even include the www anymore.