How do I get my new DNS settings to save?

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  virtualtrombonist · Member · Oct 20, 2015 at 9:42 pm

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  I am trying to edit my DNS settings and WordPress won’t save the entries…

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 20, 2015 at 9:51 pm

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  This site http://www.virtualtrombonist.com/ is not hosted by wordpress.COM.

  I’m sorry but you are posting to the wrong support forum. We cannot help you here at wordpress.COM because that site is not hosted here and we do not provide support for sites we do not host.

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
  Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
  WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

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  timethief · Member · Oct 20, 2015 at 9:53 pm

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  Are you trying to purchase a domain mapping upgrade and map from http://virtualtrombonist.wordpress.com/ to http://www.virtualtrombonist.com/ ?

  In order to map to a domain URL one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

  All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the new domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the new domain URLs.

  Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  See here if you do not own a domain
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
  http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  See here if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

  Your payment methods are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

  Your upgrade history will be here Dashboard > Store> My Upgrades
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

  Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/

  After you do the primary blog set up it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.