: Use a custom domain and point to Tumblr blog My domain mydomain.com is registered with GoDaddy. I wish to host my Tumblr blog on this domain with Nearly Free Speech hosting. My active nameservers

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My domain mydomain.com is registered with GoDaddy. I wish to host my Tumblr blog on this domain with Nearly Free Speech hosting.

My active nameservers at GoDaddy already point to my authoritative ones at Nearly Free Speech which is working. However I'm baffled as to how to get my correct configuration to point to my Tumblr.

Preferably I'd like

(A) my domain mydomain.com to host the blog and have www.mydomain.com redirect also to mydomain.com.
If this is too difficult my next preference is

(B) to have www.mydomain.com host the blog whilst mydomain.com redirects to www.mydomain.com
My third preference is to have

(C) a sub-domain like tumblr.mydomain.com or tumblr.mydomain.com to host the blog and I guess have mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com both redirect to it.

I've tried having two aliases mydomain.com and mydomain.com pointing to my permanent Nearly Free Speech IP at mydomain.nfshost.com and when I try to add:

(1) an A record pointing mydomain.com to the IP 66.6.44.4 as per Tumblr's instructions it tells me I already have the bare domain as an alias so I cant do that.

(2) the A record on the mydomain.com alias.
I can do this with either mydomain.com set as an alias or not.
But when I tried this with mydomain.com set as the canonical name the result when visiting either mydomain.com or mydomain.com was both of them continually redirecting to each other until an error was thrown.

So I was wondering if there is a ninja that could save me some hair-pulling and tell me the correct way to config A, or else B, or else C.

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