Using A NAME instead of NS records

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  carljoseph · Member · May 31, 2010 at 6:11 am

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  Hi,

  I wish to continue hosting my own DNS but have my blog on wordpress.com. Instead of migrating my entire DNS control to wordpress (using NS NameServers) is it possible for to just set up an A NAME record to point to my wordpress site?

  I have read the following article about DNS mapping but it doesn’t say if this is possible or not.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  Thanks,
  Carl

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 31, 2010 at 6:20 am

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  WordPress.COM does not allow A NAME records, but you can use a C Name record to point to a subdomain of your main domain as explained here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/ .

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  carljoseph · Member · May 31, 2010 at 6:29 am

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  Thank you for the quick response. I will give that a shot and see how it goes.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 31, 2010 at 6:31 am

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  You’re welcome and good luck.