website does not show up with www.

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  lydiamross · Member · Mar 21, 2014 at 11:25 am

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  I bought a domain name externally from fasthosts which I want to connect to my wordpress.com blog. I also bought domain mapping from wordpress and changed the nameservers on my fasthosts account. But the website only works by typing in:
  davidkilmurry.com
  not http://www.davidkilmurry.com
  I think that I need to add a subdomain via CNAME record?
  so I think I’d put www in the host name box but I don’t know what to put in the “points to” box.
  Help would be hugely appreciated!

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

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  lydiamross · Member · Mar 22, 2014 at 10:47 am

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  Seems to have sorted itself out. No idea how!

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Mar 24, 2014 at 10:50 pm

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  Great! Yeah, DNS changes usually take several hours to fully take effect (and theoretically can take up to 72 hours).

  Let me know if I can help with anything else!