DNS Editing Deployed
A few years ago, when we began to offer domain mapping—serving a WordPress.com blog on your domain, like example.com—we omitted DNS control because we didn’t count on many people needing it. Soon we tired of saying “no” to users wanting email on their blog domains so we added limited support for Google-hosted email. Recently we tired of saying “no” to users wanting DNS control so today we deployed a DNS editor for custom domains.
The Edit DNS link is on the Domains page.
This free enhancement is available to everyone who uses domain mapping on WordPress.com. The ability to add some common DNS records (MX, TXT, CNAME, A) opens the door for services hosted elsewhere to work under the same domain as your blog. Integrating other hosted services with your domain, such as email (you@example.com) or other kinds of web content (wiki.example.com), can make your dot-com a more powerful branding tool. We hope it makes WordPress.com a better choice for bloggers all over the internet.
Posted: Thursday, April 1st, 2010 at 9:27 pm. Filed in Domains, Features, New Features, Upgrade, WordPress.com.
Apr 1st at 9:37 pm
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Apr 1st at 9:40 pm
Wow.. I am wordless.. You guys rock!
Apr 1st at 9:45 pm
Thank you so much. I’m guessing this will save us tons of headaches with Google mail not recognizing our passwords when logging in from other computers.
For those of us, with Google mail mapped, please direct us to instructions for changing our mail map.
Thank you so much for keeping wordpress.com fresh.
Janice
Zumba Contra Costa
Apr 1st at 11:35 pm
The old Google mail records should still work just fine. You’ll see them if you open the DNS editor.
Apr 1st at 9:48 pm
Very useful, especially being able to integrate other services, thanks!
Apr 1st at 10:18 pm
OK… If I understand (I´m new), as I have my domain and blog hosted with WordPress.com, I can register my email services with another server (for example Fasthosts) and work with my own email address me@mydomain.com? So I would manage my web content in WordPress.com and my email with the other server.
Please could someone explain me in simple language what do I say to the email company? (what is it that I´m buying) What settings do I need to change at WordPress dashboard? Or the settings need to be changed at the server who is managing my email?
Apr 1st at 11:45 pm
The settings you need are going to be called DNS records or, more specifically, MX records. Your email company will most likely provide these in a FAQ entry or documentation.
Apr 1st at 10:30 pm
Thank you!
Apr 1st at 10:31 pm
Nice!
Apr 1st at 10:31 pm
Waaaaait. I hope that wasn’t an April Fool’s gag…
Apr 1st at 10:33 pm
Excellent! I have a domain name registered with you, and this provides more value for me.
Apr 1st at 10:37 pm
Nice
Apr 1st at 10:49 pm
Hmm…
Seems like we need to consider a self-hosted WP
Great, keep working
Apr 1st at 10:53 pm
Great, I’ll try that with my domain venezuelatina.com. Is there any tutorial for the non-completely-geeks?
Apr 1st at 11:48 pm
There are documentation links on the DNS Editing page. If that doesn’t get you through, there are the forums and Support. Good luck!
Apr 1st at 11:21 pm
Looks good.
Apr 1st at 11:22 pm
Interesting stuff!
Apr 1st at 11:24 pm
It’s a good improvement. WordPress is going better and better.
Apr 1st at 11:51 pm
@jabierans: your email company will give you MX records which you can add in your wordpress domain page (see in the picture above). once you have the MX records, just add those carefully and your email should start working as soon as records propagate. and if you want to use your own mail domain like mail.yourdomain.com then add a CNAME “mail” (get this record from service provider). i hope this helps you.
Apr 2nd at 12:10 am
*scratches head*
I should come back on April 2nd and re-read this.
Apr 2nd at 12:28 am
Astounding!
Apr 2nd at 12:47 am
A very logical move in anticipation of WordPress 3.0, thank you for constantly being forward thinking.
Apr 2nd at 1:43 am
Thanks!
Apr 2nd at 2:08 am
woohoo!
Apr 2nd at 2:55 am
I’m also a newbie and am not sure I understand what the benefits of this feature are or how I would use it. I have a custom domain (through WordPress) for my blog and have used Yahoo email for many years. I don’t plan to change my email address. Can someone please explain what I could do with the DNS records for my domain?
Apr 2nd at 6:15 pm
For example, custom DNS would allow you to use an email a such as yourname@yourdomain.com instead of yourname@yahoo.com.
Apr 2nd at 3:17 am
This was a smart move. Lack of DNS control put me off of WordPress.com for a long time.
Apr 2nd at 3:20 am
One day hopefully I’ll understand what all this means and how to use it…in the meantime I’m a lowly writer and blogger and grateful to wordpress for bringing my words to my readers…
Apr 2nd at 3:31 am
Thank you! That’s awesome! So nice!
Apr 2nd at 3:32 am
This is a Huge Feature Great Work!!
Apr 2nd at 4:06 am
It’s a total new experience… a great experience. WordPress moves closer to me.
Apr 2nd at 4:34 am
awesome. wp is just getting better.
Apr 2nd at 4:36 am
Thanks… great move… makes it more flexible… now all we need is Google Analytics or perhaps lijit analytics on WordPress.com and you guys will have the almost everything there is as a single package.
Thanks for listening..
Apr 2nd at 5:45 am
Hey I just mapped my domain and WordPress is here with the DNS editing feature!
Apr 2nd at 6:05 am
your guy fawkes moustache rocks.
Apr 2nd at 6:14 am
Thank you guys, SO much! We’re very, very happy with your service. And it really is service!
Apr 2nd at 6:20 am
Just keeps getting better. Thanks for your work. Cheers
Apr 2nd at 6:30 am
That’s great~! I love this feature!
WordPress is really getting better and I am really satisfied with its superb service!
Apr 2nd at 7:04 am
Thank you! Awesome stuff.
Apr 2nd at 7:09 am
Glad you have this now as I have registered a few domain names for some of my blogs. Handy!
Apr 2nd at 8:34 am
Another great WordPress.com improvement to help publisher and blogger. Thanks for special service
Apr 2nd at 1:37 pm
Looks like another step in the right direction!
Apr 2nd at 1:56 pm
good news for domain mapping users
Apr 2nd at 2:13 pm
Wow, I just did it – it was the easiest domain purchase & setup ever! Thanks WordPress.
Apr 2nd at 2:33 pm
I’ve been hoping for this for a long time. Thank you!
Apr 2nd at 3:16 pm
Wow, this looks awesome. I’m glad to see such good improvements on WordPress.
Apr 2nd at 4:11 pm
Very cool! This is change I get behind.
Apr 2nd at 5:22 pm
Sweet! Just brought my Tumblr blog under my domain. Good stuff, thanks!
Apr 2nd at 6:41 pm
@Andy Skelton & @KaushiK™ Thank U! Great feature
Apr 2nd at 6:44 pm
Great, Awesome stuff. Thanks for great service.
Apr 2nd at 9:02 pm
Over my head for now…but that’s ok. Thanks!
Apr 2nd at 11:07 pm
What is DNS…??? And how to use???
???
Sorry, I am so technically dumb.
Apr 5th at 10:07 pm
Basically, DNS are the records that connect a domain name, such as example.com, to the web server or email server that is setup to serve your website or handle your email. Check out the DNS page on Wikipedia for more information.
Apr 2nd at 11:53 pm
wow. this is great!
Apr 3rd at 12:46 am
Snapshot editing NOT deployed, but it’s all good!
Apr 3rd at 5:18 am
Hm, a bit over my head as well…
Apr 3rd at 8:16 am
I don’t have much of a concept of how this new facility will benefit me….. but I do have an immense understanding of how much being a member of WP benefits me. WP rocks! … in every direction. I love being in this amazing and wonderful community, where I can write and reach out to others and feel their own posts reaching out and touching me as I read them. Whatever DNS brings it can only be beneficial and add to the treasures already available in WP’s treasure chest.
Thank you WordPress !
John
Apr 3rd at 9:55 am
Hmmmm……sounds complicated and luckily not sure I’ll need it soon!!
Apr 3rd at 2:16 pm
An answer to my prayers!
Apr 3rd at 3:57 pm
This is great. I wish I fully understood the implications!
Apr 3rd at 5:29 pm
Really glad you folks added this, been wanting it for a long time! Thanks WordPress
Apr 3rd at 7:45 pm
Cool!
I waited for this feature for quite some time, and now: there it is.
Thank you guys! ; )
Apr 4th at 2:37 am
Wow… Does this mean that now if we wanna run two or more blogs on WordPress using the root domain and different subdomains, we only have to map the root domain with WordPress?
Say I want to map blog1.wordpress.com to mydomain.com…
blog2.wordpress.com to subdomainX.mydomain.com… and
blog3.wordpress.com to subdomainY.mydomain.com.
From now on, can we run all these off one domain mapping?
Thanks!
Apr 6th at 3:43 pm
Each blog still needs to have a mapping of its own.
Apr 4th at 4:59 am
Can someone please bring out a tutorial for non-geeks like me? I want to use this enhancement asap, but without tears!
Apr 4th at 2:56 pm
Cool
now for future refference if perhaps we, me or anybody else wants to purchase their domain name on wp.com then for some reason later down the line would like to transfer the domain name and/or have it privately registered (which wp.com does’nt offer). How can one go about doing this if its bought here on wp.com first?
Apr 6th at 3:42 pm
Our domain registration process allows you to transfer the domain away from us anytime after 60 days from purchase or change to your registration information.
Apr 4th at 3:39 pm
Excellent! wordpress is the BEST!
Apr 4th at 7:02 pm
Like someone said! An answer to prayers!
Apr 4th at 10:32 pm
You folks keep making great strides – but when will you allow us to add something like The Library Thing to our wordpress.com blogs? Blogspot does it and doesn’t seem to have an issue. I’m getting tired of having to have a separate page to list what I’m currently reading and another page for what i have finished reading – how archaic. Please come up with something to enable us to use this widget.
Thanks
Apr 6th at 3:51 pm
We’re adding new shortcodes and widgets all the time to WordPress.com; thanks very much for your suggestion.
Apr 5th at 5:14 pm
Sorry to be naive, but what I would like to do is move my blog to its own domain (say smogsblog.com) and have people be able to send email to @smogsblog.com such that this email is then all aliased/redirected to another email address (nothing to do with Google) which I already have through my ISP. This is real old-fashioned email, not web-based.
Is it possible to do this simply by buying the Domain Mapping service through you and then configuring DNS records? If so, could someone please explain how?
If not, why not?
Apr 6th at 3:41 pm
You would need to already have an email account set up to be “listening” at whatever@smogsblog.com. The easiest way to do this would be to actually use Google Apps and then forward the emails you get to your other email address – which would also make all the email go through Gmail’s spam filtering.
Apr 5th at 9:20 pm
I don’t have much of a concept of how this new facility will benefit me….. but I do have an immense understanding of how much being a member of WP benefits me. WP rocks! … in every direction. I love being in this amazing and wonderful community, where I can write and reach out to others and feel their own posts reaching out and touching me as I read them. Whatever DNS brings it can only be beneficial and add to the treasures already available in WP’s treasure chest.
Thank you WordPress !
John
Apr 5th at 11:00 pm
Very nice and much appreciated. Of course, different from normal hosting environment: expect questions!
Apr 6th at 12:05 am
Great, i have a mapping domain in wordpress.. i can practice it soon
Apr 6th at 12:29 am
Huh, that’s pretty cool. Awesome. :’D
Apr 6th at 1:40 am
You guys rock in a major way. I’m going to move my blog over post haste.
Apr 6th at 11:33 am
As I have been with WP for about 2 years, I am satisfied with it…now with the new service I love it much more…Bravo WP!
Apr 6th at 1:31 pm
DNS Editing… That’s something I miss when I started having my blog hosted by WordPress.com. When I had my blog privately hosted, my web hosting company was the one that edited the DNS settings.
Thanks for adding it to WordPress.com.
Apr 6th at 3:10 pm
Ahahaaaaa! My propaganda for wordrpess in Greece worked after all! Now you really rock!!
Apr 6th at 4:30 pm
Ryan,
Thanks for the response, but I don’t intend to make Google’s efforts at recording every aspect of my (and everyone else’s) life any easier than I absolutely have to; I’m also quite happy to do my own spam filtering. I guess if I want the email addresses I’ll have to go the whole hog and host my blog somewhere else that provides email forwarding. Which seems like a lot of hassle, so maybe I won’t bother for the time being.
Apr 7th at 1:14 am
If you can get just email hosting somewhere, that would do it, too; you wouldn’t necessarily have to host your site anywhere else. (That’s why we added this feature here.)
Apr 6th at 4:47 pm
Thank you Ryan Markel and all the other helpful folks here at wp
Apr 6th at 9:28 pm
This was really the only thing left on my wishlist. Thanks, ya’ll!
Apr 7th at 8:45 am
I am not the most high-tech guy around. Could someone explain what this feature entails ?
Apr 7th at 3:42 pm
Please check out the Support page on Custom DNS.
Apr 8th at 9:38 pm
It’s fantastic that this has finally been rolled out. It was really the last thing needed.
Apr 8th at 10:16 pm
i really need some more detailed explanation
Apr 9th at 3:43 pm
Please make sure you have read the Support page on this feature if you need more details.
Apr 13th at 12:48 pm
Means I can move it away without losing fans
Apr 13th at 3:42 pm
You could move a domain away before, these new features actually give you more options for when you keep your domain here.
Apr 13th at 1:53 pm
good news, thanks so much
Apr 14th at 1:30 pm
This is a great move on your part. WordPress does it better!! Thank you.