What is my IP address for my WordPress account?

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  lorien0111 · Member · Jul 28, 2011 at 7:53 pm

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  I purchased the domain http://www.lorienoriginal.com through bluehost. I also have an email address – (email visible only to moderators and staff) through bluehost.

  After setting up my bluehost account I then created my blog, lorienoriginal.wordpress.com. Through wordpress I made it so that when people typed in lorienoriginal.com they got my wordpress blog. This is working great. However, since I made the switch I can’t get emails through (email visible only to moderators and staff). This is a problem. Bluehost said I need to point the name server back to them, then get an IP address from wordpress and then point just the website to this IP address so I can still keep my email.

  Does this make sense? Do I have an IP address through WordPress that I can give to Bluehost? PLEASE HELP!!!!

  Thanks,

  Lorien
  Blog url: http://lorienoriginal.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 28, 2011 at 10:02 pm

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  We don’t have dedicated IP addresses at WordPress.com.

  Instead, you’ll need to point the nameservers to us, get your MX records from Bluehost, and add these to your Custom DNS panel: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/custom-dns/

  Unfortunately, we can’t support all email configurations, so you may need to switch to Google Apps for Domains: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/