Just bought a domain on wordpress. How to create/manage subdomains?

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  mfelicio · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 2:43 pm

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  Hi,

  I just bought the domain mfelicio.com on wordpress. I’d like to know if I can create subdomains, like blog.mfelicio.com and others, map the blog.mfelicio.com to mfelicio.wordpress.com and map mfelicio.com to another hosting website.

  Thanks in advance,
  Manuel Felício

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

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 2:45 pm

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  Hi. If you want to point to other sites hosted outside of WordPress.com, you can create CNAME records like this:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/custom-dns/

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  mfelicio · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 2:49 pm

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  Hi,

  Thanks for the fast reply. Actually I would like to know where can I manage the domain I just bought. How can I create subdomains my blog.mfelicio.com or foo.mfelicio.com, and if it is free to create as many subdomains as I want.

  Thanks

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 2:54 pm

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  I believe I understood your question properly. :-)
  Did you check the link I gave you?

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  mfelicio · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 3:05 pm

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  So I just bought mfelicio.com and paid 25$ (where 12$ of that were needed to map the domain to wordpress). Now to create blog.mfelicio.com I have to pay another 12$ to map the subdomain to wordpress.

  I can’t see fairness in that. So I guess I’m not going to do it..

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 3:10 pm

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  The CNAME records I was talking about are for blogs hosted outside of WordPress.com. Indeed, if you want your subdomains to point to a site hosted by WordPress.com, that’s called a subdomain mapping upgrade, not a domain mapping upgrade.

  This means you shouldn’t have paid $12 for the domain mapping upgrade (mfelicio.com), but rather $12 for the subdomain mapping (blog.mfelicio.com). I suggest you contact staff about this as soon as possible in case they can offer you a refund or an exchange:

  Contact

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  mfelicio · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 5:21 pm

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  I don’t know, because I bought mfelicio.com from WordPress’s Dashboard website. Do you think they will let me map blog.mfelicio.com and let me use mfelicio.com to anything else I want?

  Thanks for your help.

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 5:40 pm

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  Technically I believe it is possible (it involves changing the nameservers so they point to one place, adding a CNAME record at your other hosting provider and buying the subdomain mapping upgrade from WP.com). But I strongly recommend you contact staff from here.

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  mfelicio · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 6:53 pm

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  Ok,

  Thanks a lot.