DNS Editing Feature Now Available in WordPress.Com

Apr 2, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

A few years ago, when wordpress began to offer domain mapping—serving a WordPress.com blog on your domain, like example.com—wordpress omitted DNS control because wordpress didn’t count on many people needing it. Soon wordpress tired of saying “no” to users wanting email on their blog domains so wordpress added limited support for Google-hosted email. Recently wordpress tired of saying “no” to users wanting DNS control so today wordpress deployed a DNS editor for custom domains.

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.