Domain Forwards With Masking

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  workwithchantell · Member · Sep 18, 2014 at 3:09 pm

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  I have a GoDaddy domain that I want to use for my website. I do not want to transfer it to WP’s server because I still want the ability to create subdomains using their DNS manager. Does WP allow domain forwarding with masking? If not, does WP have an ip address that I can add to GoDaddy’s DNS so that my domain still points to my WP site as the domain (not the WP subdomain: workwithchantell.wordpress.com)

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  valentine · Member · Sep 20, 2014 at 7:04 am

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  Hi workwithchantell,

  I believe WordPress.com doesn’t offer domain forwarding with masking (which basically keeps your site in a frame).

  It might be better if you put your blog on a subdomain, and then added a CNAME record that points to your blog onto GoDaddy’s DNS. Here’s a support document that shows you how you may go about doing so:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/

  You still have a great amount of control over your domain if you used WordPress.com as your name server, as there’s a Custom DNS feature that lets you continue to create domains.