Setting up a nameserver on Godaddy
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If anyone’s registered a domain with Godaddy and is using that domain on a wordpress blog, I need your help.
Currently, my DNS looks like this
Host points to:
http://www.wordpress.com ns1.wordpress.com
http://www.wordpress.com ns2.wordpress.com
http://www.wordpress.com ns3.wordpress.comIs this right? Am I supposed to switch places? Or is there a piece of information I’m missing?
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Ok, the spaces I put in were taken out, but the host column is all http://www.wordpress.com and the points to: column are the three ns addresses.
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Hi. Have you tried the instructions here?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/#nameserver-instructions -
With GoDaddy.com, when you set nameservers, there is no “points to” field… It sounds like you’re trying to set your nameservers in the DNS management area rather than in the nameserver settings area.
If this is correct, go back to the Domain Details page and access the Nameservers area instead. That’s where you’ll assign the three WordPress.com nameservers. Go Daddy has a step-by-step guide to making this change: http://x.co/Ys2U
FYI, if you have other services using this domain name, like email or subdomains, they will all stop working once you change the nameservers. This is an important distinction. If you need to use this domain for things like that AND you want to map to a WordPress.com blog, you will need to use a subdomain instead. In other words, you would use something like BLOG.YourDomain.com instead of just YourDomain.com.
WordPress has instructions for mapping a subdomain here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/ -
Oh, I forgot to mention that I’m a GoDaddy.com employee. I think I’m required by law to say that.
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@mowalon – I think there have been several people that still use Godaddy email with a domain of YourDomain.com – they did not need to do a blog.YourDomain.com – – but as I also remember they struggled a bit to get the right records set – and yes they still pay Godaddy for the email service.
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Hey everyone, thanks for the great advice. You were right, I wasn’t looking in the right place to setup the nameservers, it’s all resolved now.
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