How do I reset my default wordpress.com DNS Records?

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  firstnamerob · Member · May 18, 2015 at 10:27 pm

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  Hi,

  I accidentally deleted the 3 default DNS Records so my site has gone down. I had it mapped perfectly to a custom domain but yeah stupidly deleted these defaults. I cannot find how to reset these or what they are to add back in manually.

  Please help.

  Cheers

  Rob

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

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  siobhyb · Member · May 19, 2015 at 10:08 am

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  Hi Rob.

  It looks like you may have figured this out by yourself? I’m able to view your WordPress.com site when visiting hoodfood.com.au and can see that that domain’s name servers are correctly pointing towards WordPress.com:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  Let me know if there’s anything else you need help with on that.

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  firstnamerob · Member · May 19, 2015 at 11:46 am

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  All good thank you

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  siobhyb · Member · May 19, 2015 at 11:53 am

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  Glad to hear that! :) Let us know if you have any extra questions.

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  firstnamerob · Member · May 19, 2015 at 12:07 pm

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  Well actually…

  I’ve got my domain name with another company and have set the name servers to point back to wordpress.com for my site. I’ve also signed up for an email with them against my domain.

  If you could tell me how to set my email on the wordpress end that I think points back to my domain host? That would be awesome :)

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  siobhyb · Member · May 19, 2015 at 12:58 pm

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  Sure thing. :) We have a step-by-step guide for connecting your email up to your custom domain here:

  Add Email Through Other Providers

  The first step is to collect the needed DNS records from your email provider. If you don’t already know these, can you contact their support team directly? They’ll be able to provide the needed details to you.