godaddy, google apps & wordpress domain mapping

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  timurjaya · Member · Jan 4, 2008 at 6:34 am

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  Our organization have a domain which is registered on godaddy.com. We also
  use the google apps extensively. Therefore we use alot url links like:
  – start.mydomain.com
  – docs.mydomain.com
  – mail.mydomain.com
  – calendar.mydomain.com
  We handle the url by creating CNAME records using the godaddy’s Total DNS Control.

  Right now we are interested to create our organization website on wordpress.com.
  I read that wordpress.com provide upgrade option for domain mapping. However, I see
  that the only option is to change name server in our DNS into ns1.wordpress.com, etc.

  What do we want is mapping http://www.mydomain.com into our blog page in wordpress.com.
  Can wordpress show us how to the domain mapping via CNAME records methods? Because
  I do not want to lose the other google apps URL such as mail.mydomain.com, docs.mydomain.com.

  Thanks for anyone who can anwer our questions.

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  matt · Staff · Jan 4, 2008 at 7:52 am

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  Yes!

  Leave your DNS at Godaddy.

  CNAME www or blog or whatever you would like to point to example.wordpress.com. (Where example.wordpress.com is your normal WordPress address.)

  Now go to Upgrades > Domains and add that domain, for example blog.example.com. It costs $10/year.

  Let me know how that goes.

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  timurjaya · Member · Jan 4, 2008 at 8:34 am

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  Thanks Matt for the info, I’ll post the result asap.

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  timurjaya · Member · Jan 4, 2008 at 9:09 am

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  Hi Matt,
  now I am a little confused. In the WordPress control panel, I choose Upgrade > Domains.
  Suppose my domain is example.com. What do I enter in the “Add a domain” text box?
  http://www.example.com or example.com

  I read the other posts in the forum, it looks like wordpress.com does not accept any domain mapping with www in the beginning. Is it true?

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  mbarulli · Member · Jan 8, 2008 at 10:23 am

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  Hi Matt,
  this is was exactly what I was trying to accomplish (only difference DynDNS instead of GoDaddy).

  I did what you said, but when I try to add the domain “www.pixcake.com” to “pixcake.wordpress.com” I get the message “This domain has already been mapped to a WordPress.com blog.”

  This is probably due to the fact that I previously bought the 10 credits and mapped “pixcake.wordpress.com” to “pixcake.com” (causing the problem with subdomains “start.pixcake.com”, “mail.pixcake.com”, …)

  How can I remove this mapping and start again?

  Many thanks in advance and keep the good job!
  Marco

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  mbarulli · Member · Jan 10, 2008 at 12:27 pm

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  Matt?
  Did you have a chance to investigate my issue?

  Looking forward to hear from you,
  best regards,
  Marco