IP address?

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  lilacblossomphotography · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 10:07 pm

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  I need the IP address of my wordpress blog so I can create a subdomain and point my blog here. What is it?

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 10:11 pm

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  Hello there,
  We don’t rely on IP addresses for that purpose here at WordPress.COM. There is no permanent static IP address for any WordPress.com blog. All IPs are dynamic ie. ever changing. Therefore WordPress.com does not purport to provide static IP addresses. Note what Staff (jeremeylduvall) provides in this thread https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/looking-for-name-serverip-address?replies=8#post-2091660

  To map to an existing domain see http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
  To map a subdomian see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/

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  lilacblossomphotography · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 10:50 pm

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  This doesn’t really answer my question. I need to point my blog.lilacblossomphotography.com SUBdomain to here. I’m not trying to start here and point other pages to this. GoDaddy cannot do it any other way unless they have an IP address, so I’m told. So, how can it be done? I need to speak to someone to walk me through. Is there a number I can call for help?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 10:54 pm

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  There is no phone support but I will shift this thread into the queue for a Staff response. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 10:55 pm

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  On WordPress.com, you can use a subdomain of a domain that you already own. Please read this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/ while you are waiting.

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  lilacblossomphotography · Member · Mar 2, 2015 at 12:43 am

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  Thank you for your help. To clarify, I’m trying to create a subdomain with GoDaddy and that will be: blog.lilacblossomphotography.com. I want it to point to my blog I have here on wordpress: lilacblossomphotography.wordpress.com. Do to that, I simply need the IP address for the A name to point here. I don’t need to create the subdomain here in WordPress since I’ll have it there with Go Daddy. If someone can provide me with that IP address, it would be wonderful. Thanks so much.

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Mar 2, 2015 at 9:14 pm

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  Howdy!

  The reason we don’t recommend mapping with IP addresses is because we serve sites from multiple, rotating data centers. When the switches happen it affects the ability of the subdomain to reach your site with an IP address, because the IP address is changing.

  The method we recommend is to create a CNAME record in your DNS at GoDaddy. Make a CNAME record that blog.lilacblossomphotography.com is an alias of lilacblossomphotography.wordpress.com

  GoDaddy has instructions on how to add that CNAME records to your domain’s DNS here: https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/680/managing-dns-for-your-domain-names#cnames

  Then, back at WordPress.com, purchase a Domain Mapping upgrade and make sure to enter blog.lilacblossomphotography.com for the domain mapping, not lilacblossomphotography.com.

  Full steps for this process can be found here:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/

  -Alex G.