WordPress.com DNS Mapping?

Hi everyone,

Probably not the best place to post this but the best I can do.

I’m building a website for a client to replace the current one that they have hosted with WordPress.com. As an interim measure, I needed to setup email forwarding for them, so I setup a DNS service with Crazydomains, forwarding the emails, and then setup an A record to point to 198.181.116.9 as a substitute for name servers pointing straight to WordPress. The records have propagated but the website will not resolve, it just says “This site can’t be reached”.

Could anyone provide any advice on this? CrazyDomains customer service was hopeless with the issue.