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Asked: 2026-06-12T04:08:59+00:00

Tumblr’s doc ‘ Using a custom domain name ‘ is quite helpful it that

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Tumblr’s doc ‘Using a custom domain name‘ is quite helpful it that it clearly states that I need to create an A-record for example.com pointing to 66.6.44.4, so that my website is accessible via example.com.

But I don’t understand this: How do I make www.example.com take the user to example.com?

It goes without saying that this needs to be done via DNS, in a Tumblr-compatible way (just in case there are any incompatibilities).

From searching, I read that it’s NOT possible to redirect example.com to www.example.com. I can only hope this is NOT true.

If, unfortunately, it happens to be true, my only option is to create a CNAME record pointing www.example.com to domains.tumblr.com – isn’t it?

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    Ah! As stated in this answer, you need to create two DNS entries as such:

    • A record: pointing example.com to 66.6.44.4
    • A record: pointing www.example.com to 66.6.44.4

    I checked the domain in the answer – emmaraviv.com – apparently, www.emmaraviv.com redirects to emmaraviv.com. So yeah, this is it!

    You need to create two records, an A record for the two-level domain (example.com) and another A record for the three-level domain (www.example.com), then add example.com in Tumblr > Settings for your blog, and now example.com should redirect to www.example.com without a hiccup — as far as I can see it.

    UPDATE: Just tested this with my blog, and yes, I can confirm that it works!

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