How to find your Nameservers

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  charlottedaly2021 · Member · Jun 21, 2022 at 3:15 pm

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  I need to find my website’s ‘Nameservers’ – how do I do this?

  I don’t have a site with WordPress.com yet

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  amiteshg93 · Member · Jun 21, 2022 at 3:48 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can find the name servers for WordPress.com here:

  ns1.wordpress.com
  ns2.wordpress.com
  ns3.wordpress.com

  Hope this helps! :)

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  charlottedaly2021 · Member · Jun 21, 2022 at 4:27 pm

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  Hi, thank you for getting back to me. Those links didn’t seem to take me anywhere. It just said ‘page not found’. What are they meant to take me through to?

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  themagicrobot · Member · Jun 21, 2022 at 5:07 pm

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  I need to find my website’s ‘Nameservers’ – how do I do this?

  What is the URL of your site and where are you trying to move it to/from?

  I don’t have a site with WordPress.com yet

  You’re posting into the support forum for free sites hosted at WordPress.com. Are you planning on building a site here and moving an existing domain to it?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jun 22, 2022 at 8:11 am

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  Hi there,

  Those links didn’t seem to take me anywhere. It just said ‘page not found’. What are they meant to take me through to?

  Those links aren’t supposed to take you anywhere.

  Name servers are added to your domain, and tell any browser trying to visit your domain where to go look for your domain’s IP address and other DNS records, which in turn tells the browser the location of the server it must connect to, to download the files that make up your site.

  If you have a domain you bought somewhere else, and you want to use that domain with a site hosted on our servers on WordPress.com, you’ll add our name servers to your domain, at your domain provider, to point the domain to us.

  If that’s not what you’re trying to do, then our name servers aren’t of any use to you :)