Finding the nameservers for my site
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Hello
I have purchased three domains from Netistrar which I want to map to a WordPress site.
At Netistrar, I have found the page with the existing nameservers (two). WordPress says they should be replaced with ns1.wordpress.com, ns2.wordpress.com and ns3.wordpress.com. I have done literally that.
Of course it doesn’t work, because I haven’t told them which of the millions of wordpress sites I want to map to. Even I own about 7 wordpress sites. So what should I do to map to my exact site?
thank you
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Hello,
Mapping domains procedure takes up to 72 hour to complete because of domain propagation, so If you have done this procedure recently It might still be too early.The nameservers are correct, you might also want to contact your registrar (in your case, Netistrar) to ensure the name servers were changed properly (and that the old ones were completely removed).
The nameservers are correct, the function of nameservers is to tell the domain where your website is located, and they already contain all the necessary informations.
Hope this helps!
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Thank you. I have now set all three to have the three wordpress nameservers, and I will see what happens.
However, I am really puzzled how it can work. I haven’t told Netistrar which wordpress website to connect to – does it use cookies or telepathy or what? The Netistrar account is in someone else’s name, too.
Many thanks for your time. I must be missing something obvious.
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Mapping to WordPress.com hosting works when you have an upgrade on the site hosted here. You’ll enter the domain name you want to connect to the site, and this will be what tells the servers which site of all those hosted here to connect your domain to. It sounds like an upgrade and adding the domain is what you may be missing.
A plan at the Personal level or above works for this, and then connect the domain at My site > Domains > Add to tell the system that’s the domain for the specific site.
Here are all the details: https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
Hope that helps!
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You’re welcome :)
Yes, we can say that the DNS system is almost like magic :) Every website has its own unique IP address made of a string of numbers, because computers love numbers, but they’re too difficult to remember; that’s why domains were invented, and what they do is converting a human-readable address (for example, google.com) into a computer-readable address (the string of numbers we mentioned above), so DNS is a database that works just like a phonebook where computers can look up internet adresses :) Nameservers are a part of the DNS system; they tell the browser where your website is physically located.
The wizard doing the magic here is the IP address associated with your WordPress.com blog, which is unique as we said above; when you type a website address, this is what happens in the browser:
-The browser asks the DNS for the nameservers to know where the website is located (or where it has its house, we can say;)
-DNS replies to the browser and atell it that the website lives on this particular server (in your case, the WordPress.com servers) and has this nameservers (in your case, ns1.wordpress.com, ns2.wordpress.com and ns3.wordpress.com) and has this IP address;
-The browser finds the location of the website and sends a request to the server: “I need this page, could you send it to me please?”
-The servers receives the request, sends the page to the browser and…voilà! You can finally see the website :)
And all of this happens in a matter of seconds, it’s the magic of the internet :) -
And yes, as darciemg correctly stated, you need a paid plan (starting from personal) and a domain mapping upgrade (If you haven’t already made those upgrades).
But, If you have done all the necessary upgrades and mapped the domains correctly (and it sounds like you have, from what you’re telling), then it’s just a matter of time until the DNS propagate and update other servers.
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ah, thanks both, the thing is I don’t have the paid plan. I haven’t upgraded.
That’s because when I did this operation before, with a different domain provider (LCN), I didn’t need to. I was able to combine a completely free wordpress site with a paid-for domain from somewhere else. It cost me one pound!
have the rules changed?
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Ah I see now, yes as of now it is required to have these two upgrades, once you’ll have these set up everything will work fine
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actually I looked into it, and I see that last time what I did was web forwarding, which is not quite the same thing. That explains it.
all very educational! thanks everyone.
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