How find nameserver name on my wordpress.com (free account)

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  peaceprof1 · Member · Sep 29, 2017 at 8:26 pm

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  How do I find the nameserver name/number on my wordpress.com (free account)?

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 29, 2017 at 8:59 pm

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  amishmennonitehistorians.com is hosted by BlueHost
  IP Address: 69.195.124.66
  Name Servers:
  ns1.bluehost.com
  ns2.bluehost.com

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  timethief · Member · Sep 29, 2017 at 9:00 pm

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  If you are referring to a different site you can type the URL in here http://www.whoishostingthis.com/

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  peaceprof1 · Member · Sep 30, 2017 at 1:11 am

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  timetheif,

  Thanks for your help. I didn’t realize me post would include the other website I have. The one I need the nameserver id for is casselmanhistorians.wordpress.com

  Can you help me with that?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 30, 2017 at 9:00 pm

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  casselmanhistorians.wordpress.com is hosted by wordpress.COM ie. by Automattic Inc.

  http://whois.domaintools.com/wordpress.com

  Name Server(s)
  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS4.WORDPRESS.COM (has 1,193,726 domains)

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  timethief · Member · Sep 30, 2017 at 9:01 pm

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  Will you please clearly state why you want this information and also reveal what your goal is?

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  peaceprof1 · Member · Oct 1, 2017 at 12:19 am

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  Yes, the Mennonite/Amish historians group I run the website for decided to switch to a free WordPress.com website after our current one hosted by Bluehost was hit by malware. The folks at Bluehost helping me redirect the traffic from the old site (amishmennonitehistorians.com) to our new site (casselmanhistorians.wordpress.com) told me that the reason my redirect request didn’t work was because I needed to enter the name of the WordPress nameservers and that I should ask WordPress what the nameservers are. This is all Greek to me, but I plan to type in the nameservers you gave me and see within 72 hours if the redirect works or not. Should two or three of the nameservers you listed be enough?

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  fstat · Staff · Oct 2, 2017 at 9:15 am

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  Hi there,

  If you want to use your domain amishmennonitehistorians.com on your WordPress.com site casselmanhistorians.wordpress.com, you need to map it, not redirect it.

  Here are the instructions on how to do it:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Please note that for the mapping feature to work you’ll need to purchase one of our Plans:

  https://wordpress.com/pricing/

  If you have any other questions, just let me know and I’ll be happy to help.

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  peaceprof1 · Member · Oct 2, 2017 at 12:20 pm

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  fstat,

  We want to redirect traffic to the new site, not map it onto our new site. Does that make sense? We are happy with the new domain name and aren’t wanting to keep the old one after a year from now. We just want a year when someone looking up amishmennonitehistorians.com gets redirected to casselmanhistorians.com

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  fstat · Staff · Oct 2, 2017 at 2:34 pm

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  Oh, okay. Then Bluehost should help you configure the redirect. Let us know if you or Bluehost need more information.