Subdomain CNAME is set but WordPress doesn't see it

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  transparentca · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 10:46 pm

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  Hello,

  Earlier today, I set the CNAME for blog.transparentcalifornia.com to point to transparentcaliforniablog.wordpress.com. The DNS change appears fully propagated. Checking http://blog.transparentcalifornia.com/ shows it pointing to WordPress.com servers (though with an error message because of the following issue).

  However, when I try to pay the $13 to host the subdomain it errors out with “DNS CNAME for blog.transparentcalifornia.com needs to point to transparentcaliforniablog.wordpress.com.”

  But, as best I can tell, it already is.

  Any ideas? If I tried to purchase the mapping before it was fully propagated, could that still be causing issues for WordPress.com?

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 10:51 pm

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  zeddba · Member · Jan 5, 2015 at 10:41 am

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  I have the exact same issue. I’ve create CNAME for:
  blog.zeddba.co.uk CNAME zeddba.wordpress.com.

  But when trying to purchase a domain mapping for subdomain I get the following error message:
  DNS CNAME for blog.zeddba.co.uk needs to point to zeddba.wordpress.com.

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  zeddba · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 5:08 pm

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  Any WordPress Staff???

  Please resolve this ASAP, potential loss of good revenue here.