Pointing domain.wordpress.com to my server

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  pribeiro · Member · Apr 10, 2008 at 5:40 pm

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  I’ve installed wordpress on my server, but I want to maintain the domain.wordpress.com.
  Is it possible?

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  jamesewelch · Member · Apr 11, 2008 at 3:18 am

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  You’d need to have wordpress DNS admin add an A record for your server, so I’m pretty sure they aren’t going to maintain your DNS records when you are hosting your own server instead of using them as the host, etc.

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  pabloamosa · Member · Apr 11, 2008 at 4:27 am

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  Hi:

  I´m looking for the same that PRIBEIRO. I have a blog with wordpress (example: someblog.wordpress.com), but now I have a new blog (someblog.com) with my own hosting and would like to redirect the old blog (someblog.wordpress.com), to my new blog (someblog.com). It´s possible?

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Apr 11, 2008 at 5:02 am

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  Theoretically(!) you could add the domain to your WordPress.com blog, set the blog to your own domain and switch DNS entries back to the self hosted. In one of my blogs I see still a domain that is no longer DNS’d to the blog, but I could still set my blog to go there.

  There is a chance that this may work out into a proper redirect.

  I never tried this and probably never will. If you’re going to try this and it breaks you loose 10 bucks.

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  pabloamosa · Member · Apr 11, 2008 at 6:22 am

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  Thank you for your reply, but you didn´t understood that I am looking for. I want to create a redirect 301 so redirect the visits from xxxxxxxx.wordpress.com to my new blog xxxxxxx.com

  Thank you deltafoxtrot

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 11, 2008 at 6:44 am

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  No, you cannot redirect away from WordPress.com.

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  pribeiro · Member · Apr 15, 2008 at 4:40 pm

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  Ok. Txs for your help.