News!! Using A Custom Domain For Something Other Than Your Blogger Blog

This article is most how you lot tin utilisation a custom domain that was purchased through Google / Blogger for something other than a Blogger blog.

Blogger makes it real slow for you lot to purchase a "custom" domain elevate (ie URL) for your blog.   Instead of beingness www.fred-fish.blogspot.com, you lot tin easily endure www.fred-fish.com - which is to a greater extent than appealing for all sorts of reasons.

Blogger tells you lot which domain registrar they're going to utilisation in addition to lets you lot modify to the other 1 if you lot desire to.  Apart from this, Google hides most of the "technical" domain registration details from you:  you lot are invited to set upwardly a domain administrator describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship (in Google Apps), but fifty-fifty this is optional.  

But in that location may come upwardly a fourth dimension when you lot desire to utilisation your domain for to a greater extent than than but a blog:  eg, Fred may desire to utilisation www.fred-fish.com to sell line-fishing trips or every bit Earth gateway to a massive database of line-fishing achievements, neither of which are functions that Blogger (easily) provides.

To utilisation a Google-Blogger purchased domain for something other than a Blogspot blig, you lot involve to:

• Move your blog away from the domain
  (you powerfulness motion it utilisation a subdomain or virtual host off the domain afterwards on - but the offset pace is but to gratuitous upwardly the domain for other use.
• Change the domain-name-server settings for the domain to indicate to the correct house for the "something else" that you lot desire to utilisation it for.

Even though you lot purchased the domain using Blogger, your access to it is through the Google Apps command panel: from in that location you lot larn the login details for the domain registrar (currently either goDaddy or eNom that Google used to purchase the domain).

How to re-use your domain

Unlink the domain from your blog:

1  Log inward to Blogger amongst the describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship that owns the domain.

2  From the Dashboard, guide   Settings > Basic > Publishing and click the cross on the correct of the Edit link beside your spider web log name.

This changes your spider web log dorsum to www.YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogspot.com, in addition to removes the DNS records that pointed your spider web log to your custom-URL.

It may stimulate got a few hours (I've heard 72) for these changes to apply to computers all unopen to the world, hence people who become to your custom domain may nonetheless larn re-directed to your spider web log for a twenty-four hr menses or two.

Also, Google (and other search engines) volition nonetheless stimulate got indexed links to your spider web log contents at your custom domain.  These volition gradually endure replaced when

• you seat novel content at your custom domain and 
• it gets indexed yesteryear the search engines and 
• the novel content-indexing replaces information inward the cached Google results inward diverse computers unopen to the world.

This tin stimulate got some weeks, though, hence your spider web log may immature lady out 1 some search traffic, in addition to people who search for your novel site may come across strange results inward their search list.

Next - link the domain to what you lot desire it to show

3  Find, or create, the domain administrator login details for your domain:

I've previously described how to set upwardly the domain administrator for your domain.

• If you lot haven't done this already, you lot involve to find the relevant email in addition to ready the describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship now.   
• If you lot stimulate got done it, you lot involve to remember the administrator login in addition to password that you lot created.
• If you lot cannot remember the administrator details, in addition to hence become to  https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME/ForgotAdminAccountInfo - seat inward the correct value for your domain name, without www.  or http:// at the start.    Enter the captcha details, in addition to if you lot stimulate got ready an administrator describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship the details volition endure emailed to your backup secondary address. 
• If you lot never created an administrator describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship in addition to cannot uncovering the e-mail to practise it now, utilisation this help-process.  Choose:
  - I never created an administrator account, then
  - I signed upwardly at Google.com/a in addition to purchased a domain elevate at the same time
  
  You tin alone utilisation the help-process after you lot stimulate got un-linked your blog from the domain (ie steps 1-2 inward a higher house addition left fourth dimension for the modify to endure applied to Google's servers - somewhere betwixt a few minutes in addition to a few hours seems to work).  If you lot endeavor to utilisation it spell your spider web log is nonetheless using the domain, you lot destination upwardly beingness directed dorsum to Blogger.

Note:   if none of these processes attention you lot larn command of your domain administrator, cheque the resources inward this article from Nitecruzr most the topic.

4  Go to https://www.google.com/a/YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME/

v  Log in amongst the admin describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship in addition to password from Step 3.

half-dozen  Go to the Domain Settings tab

vii  Go to the Domain Names sub-tab

8  Choose the Advanced DNS settings link.

This opens a concealment that shows you lot how to larn into the DNS console for your domain.   It typically has

• Your domain-registrar sign-in elevate in addition to password,  
• Your domain-registrar client service PIN - inward representative you lot involve to contact the registrar's client services, 
• Contact details for the domain registrar's client service subdivision  
• A link that you lot tin utilisation to larn to the to DNS console

ix  Log inward to the DNS Console, using the details from pace 9.

10  Follow the directions in that location to make the domain changes.

The steps required depend totally on what you lot are using the domain for:  for attention amongst this, contact the the technical back upwardly forum (or whatever) for the production that's beingness used to construct the novel contents of your domain.


If you lot involve to a greater extent than help, cheque out the Google Apps attention forum.

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Where to uncovering to a greater extent than information

Automatically renewing your custom domain

Transferring ownership of your spider web log to some other Google account

Blogger in addition to other Google products - an overview

Recovering command of your custom domain (external link)

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