Mapping a domain from 1&1 to WordPress.com

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  tenutamarmorelle · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 4:43 pm

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  Hi,

  I have a domain name registered with 1&1 (www.tenutamarmorelle.com). I would like to use this domain name as the primary domain with my http://www.tenutamarmorelle.wordpress.com site. I have tried without any success to change the servers within 1&1 to point to wordpress but something seems to go wrong at a certain point. I get an error message when trying to load the page.

  If anybody can give me an idea of how to activate the tenutamarmorelle.com as the main domain?

  Thank you very much.

  Vincent

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 4:50 pm

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  Are you using these instructions and purchasing the Domain Mapping Upgrade?

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

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 4:52 pm

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  Invalid Nameservers

  Your domain is set up with the following name servers or their numeric equivalents:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  SLV2.1AND1.IT

  Mixed name server settings will whack you every time – they both need to be pointing to WordPress.COM or you will get erratic results at best

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  tenutamarmorelle · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 5:20 pm

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  Thanks, I tried to point to wordpress.com from within the 1&1 setup for the second server but it kept giving me errors. It was asking me for server name and another 3 servers.

  At the moment I can’t access the settings as it says there is a problem with the domain but when I check the DNS is comes back with:

  Nome di dominio : tenutamarmorelle.com
  Indirizzo IP (record A) : 66.155.9.238
  Name server 1: ns2.wordpress.com
  Name server 2: ns1.wordpress.com
  Name server 3: ns3.wordpress.com

  Not sure what has gone wrong.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 5:46 pm

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  Not sure what you are doing with the

  Indirizzo IP (record A) : 66.155.9.238

  That is one of 6 dynamic IP addresses used by WordPress.COM – I would try deleting that record, the name servers should work just fine. WordPress.COM does not support static IP addresses.

  Do you also have email you want to associate with your custom domain name??

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 5:47 pm

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  If you want Custom email – see the links below to get started

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/add-email/

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/