www. disappears when entering site

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  maximumlandingweight · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 4:50 pm

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  Hi everybody,

  I registred the domainname http://www.basgaatvliegen.nl at a third party. I edited the nameservers to the nameservers from WordPress, so the domainname refers to WordPress. All fine and working. But now, when I enter http://www.bastgaatvliegen.nl, www. disappears in the adress bar, so the adress states as basgaatvliegen.nl or http://basgaatvliegen.nl. In my opinion that’s ugly. I tried to make DNS records in the WordPress domainname section at my dashboard, but it didn’t solve the problem.

  Does anyone know how I’m able to fix this problem? Since I changed the nameserver to WordPress, I’m not able anymore to edit DNS settings at my domainname provider. So the adjustment has to be made at WordPress.

  Thanks in advance.

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  wpgaurav · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 4:55 pm

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  WordPress.com automatically removes the “www” from all URLs. Mapping the “www” subdomain is not supported. BTW you may ask your visitors to visit http://www.yourblog.url which will automatically redirect to yourblog.url

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 4:56 pm

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  That is just the way the web now works and WordPress.COM works – the “www” is depreciated and on they way to join dinosaurs

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  maximumlandingweight · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 5:19 pm

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  Hm, great. Thanks for your replies. So I only can ‘solve’ the problem by hosting the blog at a seperate hosting provider (and using their software) instead only a referal to WordPress?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 11:18 pm

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  There is no problem to solve as the redirect works properly.