Help to understand mapping to domain I own
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Hi
I need help understanding the principles of ‘mapping a domain’ as what I thought, does not seem to be happening.
I bought a domain through wordpress.com to discover that only a hyphen differentiates it from another site. I have another domain through 1and1 so wanted to make this available to me through wordpress. I thought this would mean i would need to build a new site, but it now appears that my original site exists just under the new domain – is that correct?
I then followed wordpress instructions on mapping a domain by going into 1and1s console and changing DNS to wordpress.com. Something has happenned but the site is not appearing online. I feel that proper DNS settings are needed but cannot find where I get these on wordpress as I can only see the help page and it gives wordpress.com as NS1 etc which does not sound right, – 1and1 is now saying invalid DNS data. In the domains DNS records on wrodpress it has CNAME, A etc as the domain name and ‘hosted by by wordpress’, these do not sound correct either.
I am sorry this is a terrible description but I am getting a little desperate on how to get this working and what exactly it is that will happen.
any help would be great, thanks.
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Hi there!
I bought a domain through wordpress.com to discover that only a hyphen differentiates it from another site. I have another domain through 1and1 so wanted to make this available to me through wordpress. I thought this would mean i would need to build a new site, but it now appears that my original site exists just under the new domain – is that correct?
Correct. Both of your domains cortra-consulting.com and cortrapac.com are connected to the same site cortrapaccom.wordpress.com.
I then followed wordpress instructions on mapping a domain by going into 1and1s console and changing DNS to wordpress.com. Something has happenned but the site is not appearing online. I feel that proper DNS settings are needed but cannot find where I get these on wordpress as I can only see the help page and it gives wordpress.com as NS1 etc which does not sound right, – 1and1 is now saying invalid DNS data. In the domains DNS records on wrodpress it has CNAME, A etc as the domain name and ‘hosted by by wordpress’, these do not sound correct either.
Changing the name servers to ns1.wordpress.com, ns2.wordpress.com, and ns3.wordpress.com is correct. Can you tell me which site you were expecting to appear when you type the domain cortrapac.com into your browser?
It can take several hours for DNS changes to fully propagate. So even though you changed the name servers, the domain may not start working properly for up to 72 hours (though it’s usually much quicker!).
Currently, it looks like your domain has 1and1’s name servers again:
https://who.is/whois/cortrapac.com
Can you try changing those name servers to WordPress.com’s again?
- ns1.wordpress.com
- ns2.wordpress.com
- ns3.wordpress.com
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Hi
i think the issue is that I took ns1. etc as being position prompts, not actually part of the dns address. I have put them in full now and it is pending so hopefully will work.
I am lost in regard to the site versus domain. All i need to know is if we type cortrapac.com will the site I built under cortra-consulting.com appear?
appreciate your help.
Robert
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Hi Robert! Oh good. Yes, once those changes propagate you should be all good.
I am lost in regard to the site versus domain. All i need to know is if we type cortrapac.com will the site I built under cortra-consulting.com appear?
I’m happy to answer any questions you have about this, but first – once the domain changes go through, when you type cortrapac.com the site built under cortra-consulting.com will appear.
Here’s a quick run down of sites versus domains. Here at WordPress.com, every site has a WordPress.com URL. Yours is cortrapaccom.wordpress.com.
Over this WordPress.com URL, you can add any domain, and as many domains, as you’d like. You can add something completely different like ‘robertisthebomb.com’ or ‘everyoneshouldvisitthissite.org’ or you can have the matching domain like ‘cortrapac.com’. You could have all three of these domains attached to your site.
But, only one of these domains can be your ‘primary domain’. Your primary domain is the one that will appear in your address bar when people visit the site.
So, if I choose ‘robertisthebomb.com’ as my primary domain, and someone visits ‘everyoneshouldvisitthissite.org’, they’ll see the exact same site. And the URL in the address bar will silently change from ‘everyoneshouldvisitthissite.org’ to ‘robertisthebomb.com’.
I hope this helps clarify things! Let me know if you have more questions. :)
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Hi
The domain has now completed and all is now working. Thank you ever so much for the help, I totally missed that the ns1. etc were part of the string and not a title; my bad.
I get what your saying re the site being cortrapaccom.wordpress.com and then you build on any domain and then make a domain primary so it shows in the toolbar. I didn’t think this as there is an option that says ‘switch site’ and this makes me choose between cortra-consulting (now reads cortrapac) and cortrapacdotcom; so i took this to be individual sites. cortrapacdotcom does not have my theme in it, so it still looks like a completely different site.
When I go into Cortrapac it now shows itself, cortra-consulting and cortrapaccom.wordpress.com as the domains.
cortrapacdotcom only shows that domain when I select it. So is this technically a second site that I could add a separate theme and other domains to and have this operate independent of cortrapac.com?
Apologies for the questions, it is the analyst in me….
Yours
Robert
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Howdy Robert,
So is this technically a second site that I could add a separate theme and other domains to and have this operate independent of cortrapac.com?
Absolutely right! You have two separate WordPress.com sites:
- cortrapaccom.wordpress.com, which has cortrapac.com as its primary domain, as well as cortra-consulting.com
- cortrapacdotcom.wordpress.com, which has no domain names associated with it
Each site has its own themes, content, and you can associate domain names with them.
Hope that helps clear things up. Let me know if I can help with anything else.
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Ok, that’s all good. I didn’t realise I had two hence some of my confusion.
I think that is all I needed.
Thanks
Robert
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