Site Directs Some to Godaddy ????

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  michaelbrodner · Member · Mar 1, 2009 at 5:23 am

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  So I’ve had a number of people tell me that when they try and visit my site, http://www.michaelbrodner.com, it directs them right to godaddy. Anybody know the reasoning behind this? I mapped my godaddy account to wordpress so it’s just a “.com” name instead of a “wordpress.com” name…????

  Bones

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 1, 2009 at 5:44 am

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  It takes some time to settle in. It’s working for me when I click on your name. Goes to your WP site.

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  michaelbrodner · Member · Mar 1, 2009 at 4:21 pm

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  Ok thanks. It’s weird though, I’ve had my site for a while and occasionally I get someone saying, “Hey I tried going to your site the other day and it took me to Godaddy…”

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  rollerdisco · Member · Mar 1, 2009 at 8:13 pm

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  Hi Michael,

  If I “whois” michaelbrodner.com, I see the following:

  Domain servers in listed order:
  NS15.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
  NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  As you can see, your domain is pointing to the WordPress name servers AND the GoDaddy ones, and from what I can tell the GoDaddy name servers point to a different IP than the WordPress ones. This is probably why some people are seeing the GoDaddy site.

  From http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/:

  “Q: I own domain.com, can I map that to my wordpress.com blog?
  A: Yes! Here is what you need to do: Go to your domain registrar and change the nameservers to the following, being sure to remove any existing nameservers that may be there:

  ns1.wordpress.com
  ns2.wordpress.com
  ns3.wordpress.com

  …”

  Removing reference to the GoDaddy name servers at your domain’s registrar should do the trick.

  I hope this helps!

  -Matt