If I move my domain to GoDaddy, will the balance of Domain Mapping still apply?

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  sentientmouse · Member · Apr 5, 2012 at 1:00 am

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  I am considering transferring my domain sentientmouse.com to GoDaddy (that’s where I have all of my other private domains) so that I can have mailboxes associated with sentientmouse.com. I paid for Domain Mapping back in August and I’m not sure what will happen if I transfer the domain registration away from WordPress? Will the Domain Mapping that I paid for still work until August? I still want that upgrade and will renew in August, but I just want to house all of my domains together and be able to set up POP3 accounts for sentientmouse.com.

  Many thanks,
  Mark

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 5, 2012 at 2:45 am

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  Your domain mapping will still work as long as you keep the name servers pointing to WordPress.COM.

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  sentientmouse · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 2:33 am

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  Hmmm…. I don’t think that that will allow me to have an MX record that points to GoDaddy’s POP3 server. What would happen if I didn’t point my name servers to wordpress.com, but pointed my A record to WordPress’ server? Or what if I forwarded to WordPress?
  I’m just trying to figure out how to get e-mail addresses at my domain name.

  Many thanks,
  Mark

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  timethief · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 2:39 am

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  The nameservers control where traffic for the domain goes using DNS. If you are moving from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress.org blog, you can enter the nameservers provided by your web hosting company to switch your domain to their hosting service. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/#update-nameservers
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 5:40 am

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  Godaddy email is a bit tricky but it can be done – does not matter where your domain name is registered

  I have domain mapping for my site – my domain name is not registered at WordPress.COM and I use an A record and MX record with my domain mapping to make the email work at my old host’s mail server.

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  sentientmouse · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 1:48 pm

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  I’ve actually gotten this to work. My name servers are still the WordPress ones, but I went into Edit DNS and in the Custom DNS Records window, I put two MX entries for GoDaddy’s e-mail servers. Now everything works perfectly :-)