Removing domain mapping but keeping my blog site

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    mcubedecon · Member ·

    My WordPress blog site insists that I fix my DNS configuration. I have made mcubedecon.wordpress.com my primary web address, but I also had mapped a domain mcubed-econ.net to the blog site. The domain is registered with hover.com. I am using Office 365 as my email service, and I have listed the Hover nameserver as Microsoft’s (ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com). Based on the instructions on WordPress, it doesn’t look like I can map mcubed-econ.net to both my blog and to my Office 365 email account (and the latter is much more important.) So I have two questions:

    – Can I map my blog site to a web address at Hover AND keep my address on my Office 365 account?
    – Assuming the answer is ‘no’, how do I remove the mapped domain mcubed-econ.net? Hover is NOT pointing to this address, but the WordPress instructions indicate that I need to remove the mapped domain from the Hover site–that doesn’t look possible.

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    dragoso · Member ·

    Hi @mcubedecon

    As I understand you have the domain mcubed-econ.net registered at a third party registrar and now the domain appears pointed to :

    ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com. [‘207.46.15.59’] [TTL=172800]
    ns2.bdm.microsoftonline.com. [‘157.56.81.41’] [TTL=172800]

    and for email the MX records :

    0 mcubedecon-net01e.mail.protection.outlook.com 216.32.181.42 216.32.180.74 (no glue)

    In this situation your website loads the content from the servers where the name servers are pointed ( ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com ) and the e-mails from Office 365.

    If you want, you can point the domain to WordPress.com and this way the domain will load your WordPress.com blog and you can keep the Office 365 MX records – yes this is possible.

    Please let me know if you have questions, I’ll follow this post to make sure I’ll be aware if you reply back :)

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    mcubedecon · Member ·

    Thanks. Another opportunity came up that I couldn’t pass up and I think I’m using that to solve my problem instead. I bought a new domain name from WordPress that came up that is quite close to our official domain name (mcubedecon.com) and am using that for now.

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