subdomain cname troubles

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  photozilla · Member · Jan 17, 2009 at 11:17 pm

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  I have been searching the support and forums but I couldn’t come up with the answer. I have registered domain.com and put it on a server of mine. I went into my WHM (webhosting manager) and created a cname entry:
  subdomain 14400 IN CNAME blogname.wodpress.com
  when I check with dnsstuff.com it turns out that:
  subdomain.domain.com is now forwarded to blogname.wordpress.com.domain.com
  Why does it append domain.com and how can I fix it?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jan 18, 2009 at 1:12 am

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  Sorry but I’m not following you. Can you give the actual urls you are trying to use?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jan 18, 2009 at 1:13 am

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  Also – have you looked at the FAQ? http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/

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  tellyworth · Staff · Jan 18, 2009 at 1:17 am

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  photozilla, two things you need to do to fix it:

  1. The CNAME should be ‘wordpress.com.’ not ‘blogname.wordpress.com’

  2. Put a dot at the end of wordpress.com. when you set your CNAME to stop domain.com from being appended.