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Domain mapping and Email

Minds boggle and records break: we just upgraded an upgrade!

Since its inception, the Domain Mapping upgrade has lacked support for email. No longer. Everyone who has mapped a domain to their blog (subdomains excluded) can now take advantage of the Google Apps email service, which is free to use and takes just a few minutes to configure. There is no extra charge to add email to your blog; it is included in the domain mapping upgrade.

Setup is as painless as we could make it without actually drugging you. Technically, we just install MX records into your DNS zone so that your emails can be delivered to you. We don’t have any control over your mailboxes or your messages. See the instructions for directions and details.

Cheers!

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by Andy Skelton

Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 10:01 am. Filed in Domains, WordPress.com.
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  1. eoinpurcell
    May 23rd at 11:02 am

    Cool!
    Eoin

  2. Michael Sync
    May 23rd at 11:18 am

    wow.. thanks.. i was waiting this feature for long time.. i even sent a request to support about this.

    thanks a lot.. wp

  3. 0nkulis
    May 23rd at 11:19 am

    great news thanks!

  4. servaas
    May 23rd at 11:33 am

    I just mapped a domain and wondered how I could get you guys to set up my mx records for google apps use…thx for being faster than me….
    :D

  5. intlxpatr
    May 23rd at 11:34 am

    Holy Smokes. You guys are amazing. One improvement on top of another!

  6. Inexistent Man
    May 23rd at 11:52 am

    Cool

  7. David W. Boles
    May 23rd at 11:55 am

    I’ve been waiting for this since last October. YAY!

    Outstanding, Andy, and BIG THANKS!

  8. Roffi
    May 23rd at 11:57 am

    pertamax ga ya??

    I will upgrade soon! cool features!

  9. cityintheclouds
    May 23rd at 11:58 am

    Nifty, but I’ve already done that with my main domain name. Will bear it in mind for future reference though. Keep up the good work!

  10. David W. Boles
    May 23rd at 12:01 pm

    Oh, and Google Apps are great. I’m writing a book on Google Apps for Thomson/CoursePTR:

    http://urbansemiotic.com/2007/05/08/google-apps-for-your-domain-book/

  11. Cristiano
    May 23rd at 12:01 pm

    Great upgrade. I was missing this thing. Thanks guys!

  12. pinkjesus
    May 23rd at 12:19 pm

    Pink Jesus thanks you for the email integration. Praise Pink Jesus!

  13. David W. Boles
    May 23rd at 12:22 pm

    Domain Aliasing works with GAYD! I’m verified and sending mail on my domain again. Yay!

    You might want to update your process to include that option: “Point MX to Google Apps” and leave it at that.

    Some of us don’t need to enter any verification information. We just need the MX record modified.

    I’d love to get rid of that empty and looming verification box in my WP.com Admin panel waiting for me to fill in and click save that will never happen.

  14. Judy O'Connell
    May 23rd at 12:23 pm

    Wow!!!

  15. Anita Marie
    May 23rd at 12:23 pm

    I like painless setups well done
    amm

  16. Editor
    May 23rd at 12:24 pm

    sweet!

  17. deambulando
    May 23rd at 12:24 pm

    perfect!!! its all that i need!! thanks!!

  18. plubius
    May 23rd at 12:25 pm

    Thanks =D

    I have to get my domain up and running.

  19. amiripz
    May 23rd at 12:26 pm

    So, where it is going to work for us ?

  20. reasic
    May 23rd at 12:28 pm

    Awesome! I’m doing it, I’m doing it! :P

    Google: ” We are checking domain ownership. This may take 48 hours to complete.”

  21. Universalgeni
    May 23rd at 12:30 pm

    Please do not write just for the local duck pond over there. I don’t get all that slang and closed insider information. The relaxed form is very nice. But please remember, that you are an international business. What are you talking abort? An international English would be nice…

  22. Rui Martins
    May 23rd at 12:55 pm

    I´ve done it!
    Now let´s wait for the dns propagation…

    Thanks a lot for that improvement!

  23. Kunal
    May 23rd at 1:10 pm

    nice … upgrading an upgrade :)

    by the way, has the millionth blog been made?

  24. Rui Martins
    May 23rd at 1:29 pm

    It worked and it is on the run, now!

  25. Luthfi
    May 23rd at 1:34 pm

    nice :-)
    but $10 still too expensive …
    Free charge if we use our domain in blogger.com. when will wordpress do the same?

  26. Kaan
    May 23rd at 1:36 pm

    great news.
    i waited long for this upgrade. thanks.

  27. Mocha!
    May 23rd at 1:47 pm

    Ok…more stuff from WP admin. Nice one! Keep ‘em coming.

  28. Tom
    May 23rd at 2:06 pm

    That’s great – thanks for the meta-upgrade :)

  29. Kambiz Kamrani
    May 23rd at 2:13 pm

    This saves my life. Thanks for doing this guys!

  30. feartheseeds
    May 23rd at 2:28 pm

    “subdomains” almost sounds like a sandwich… any chance the upgrade will include a subsub? I really could use a sandwich…

  31. just4ikarus
    May 23rd at 2:39 pm

    hey, that’s cool …

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  33. Vegetsu Gokazama
    May 23rd at 2:49 pm

    Oh, Andy
    I wish if subdomains could also have an e-mail for ex:gogetsu@gogetsupokemon.wordpress.com

    Cheers!

  34. Pas
    May 23rd at 2:55 pm

    Great!!!

  35. .::* Vanina y Mariana *::.
    May 23rd at 3:13 pm

    Cool!!!

  36. Woeful
    May 23rd at 3:19 pm

    Many people are going to be very happy about this. Well done!

  37. Neville
    May 23rd at 3:32 pm

    Wxcellent, WordPress, you’ve done it again! Cheers! :)

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  39. vinodvv
    May 23rd at 4:03 pm

    Wow, Killer feature…
    You guys rock

  40. engtech
    May 23rd at 4:11 pm

    Wow. Registering a domain is FAST now. It was live within 20 minutes.

  41. Josh Miller
    May 23rd at 4:42 pm

    Works for me. Pretty sweet.

  42. Stephen Elliot
    May 23rd at 4:44 pm

    My initial reaction: Sweet! I’ve been waiting for this!
    My second reaction: Blast! I just printed business cards yesterday with another email address, but I really wanted to use my domain.

    Oh well. Thanks guys! =)

  43. Hameed Khan
    May 23rd at 5:13 pm

    Thanks! Its like you people can read our minds. I just switched to Google apps two days ago. It like great to have my blog domain on google apps too :)

  44. carthik
    May 23rd at 5:24 pm

    Nice! Very nice. Keep upping the ante on hosted blog services. You should really have a list of “only at wp.com” features that sets your apart from Typepad, blogger et al.

  45. josh
    May 23rd at 5:25 pm

    I may now be ready to map my domain! Now I just need to reclaim the domain form my hosting company, who registered it in their name. Is this common practice? Will they let me go without a fight?

  46. 0xcafe
    May 23rd at 5:37 pm

    Wow! Great stuff ! :P

  47. kazik
    May 23rd at 5:40 pm

    Very usefull :-) Thanks! Hope it will come in handy in the future (for me) :-)

  48. Linh760Li
    May 23rd at 6:02 pm

    It’s really useful. Thanks a lot.

  49. shortexact
    May 23rd at 7:16 pm

    Oh man, thank you so much. You guys rock.

  50. Lucas
    May 23rd at 7:27 pm

    Maybe I should upgrade some time.. :-)

  51. natanzuelo
    May 23rd at 7:58 pm

    Awesome! I’m planning to use it!

  52. abu ameerah
    May 23rd at 8:03 pm

    Thanks guys!!!

  53. ramoody5
    May 23rd at 8:07 pm

    cool thats wat I was waiting for

  54. MarkMan
    May 23rd at 8:10 pm

    Barry, big thanks to you! I got it working and please thank Andy for the help as well! I

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  56. referenceur
    May 23rd at 9:32 pm

    Nice Idea ! Thank you !!!

  57. tazspaz
    May 23rd at 9:34 pm

    hmm…I hate to do this but …

    http://get.live.com/betas/home

    I have been using this for both a blog and a domain I actually have forwarded and masked to a new domain name.

    Maybe I’m off base?

    Enjoy!

  58. nederhop074
    May 23rd at 9:38 pm

    Great!!!

  59. Eleftherios Kosmas
    May 23rd at 10:27 pm

    very useful! congrats wp.com

  60. penguinsrock12
    May 23rd at 11:18 pm

    thanks

  61. Paul Denton
    May 24th at 1:02 am

    yeah, but if you disable cookies none of the blogs on personal domain works

  62. mudin001
    May 24th at 1:38 am

    fantastic!

  63. americanuck
    May 24th at 2:34 am

    THANK YOU!!!

  64. William T. Foxtrot
    May 24th at 5:07 am

    Man, I don’t usually leave thank-yous here when you guys add a new feature, but this is DEFINITELY one I’ve been waiting for. Thanks a lot, I’m really happy that I switched from hosting my own WordPress blog to having you guys host it. You take care of your bloggers :-) .

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  67. Saqib Ansari
    May 24th at 11:02 am

    Greate

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  69. scudie
    May 24th at 1:25 pm

    In my language, tamil.. ‘Kalakita machi!’ (loosely translates to ‘you rock, guys!’).. thanks guys..

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  71. Colin
    May 24th at 3:17 pm

    wow … I had set up another domain for email to get around this … this is awesome!

  72. Brian Purkiss
    May 24th at 7:13 pm

    OH AWESOME!!!!
    I’m going to set that up right now!!!
    Thanks y’all for setting that up!!!

  73. Brent
    May 24th at 9:20 pm

    Does this only apply to email, or will other GAFYD services work as well, like Docs and Spreadsheets, etc.?

    This would really be a good thing. I was just ranting about this last night, albeit with humor in mind.

    Good stuff. Thanks Andy.

  74. Netty
    May 24th at 10:19 pm

    Good idea! :)

  75. erikcurtis
    May 24th at 10:25 pm

    This is great. How about allowing mx pointers to other mail hosting services? The one I’m looking at is officelive.com Google apps are great but the don’t offer any way to sync my online calendar with my Windows Mobile smart phone.

  76. Peat
    May 25th at 2:59 am

    Hot — if I already have my domain mail hosted with Google, will it work as well?

  77. themrs07
    May 25th at 3:35 am

    You work so hard. :)

  78. raincoaster
    May 25th at 6:26 am

    Yeah baby!

  79. Coops
    May 25th at 8:57 am

    And when I heard of this feature I thought it was months away. I should never have doubted. YAY! :)

  80. muriella
    May 25th at 11:09 am

    wordpress, u rock!

  81. Henrik Sundholm
    May 25th at 2:21 pm

    Great ^^

  82. Calvin
    May 25th at 3:18 pm

    Wow! I’m really going to have to consider the domain mapping upgrade! Thanks.

  83. vjp
    May 25th at 6:14 pm

    Nice feature. But I, too, wish we could use it with subdomains, which is how I have my blog mapped.

  84. Alarka
    May 25th at 8:07 pm

    Nice. Also, “V for Vendetta” is in your face, eheh! :P

  85. fnerd
    May 25th at 9:11 pm

    Outstanding. I’ve been longing for this feature. I’ll never go back to virtual hosting ever again!

  86. p4ndu_454kura
    May 26th at 4:09 am

    Wow! Cool!
    Now I can make my own map :mrgreen:

  87. Murlin Chow
    May 26th at 12:25 pm

    i no has paid upgrade. :( must get! :)

  88. haozi0622
    May 27th at 6:53 am

    Tag, tag, tag…

  89. steven
    Jun 19th at 3:12 pm

    谢了,刚刚知道.

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