News!! What Unopen To Other Spider Web Log Or Google Site Is Already Using This Address Actually Means

This article explains what "Another weblog or Google Site is already using this address" agency when you lot run into it spell setting upward a custom domain for your weblog - as well as what you lot tin flame exercise to create it.

What is a custom domain

use Blogger to brand a "real" website.   For example:

• You initially laid upward    www.yourBusiness.blogspot.com
• Then you lot listen that people volition care for you lot alongside to a greater extent than abide by if you lot guide keep www.yourBusiness.com  or www.yourBusiness.co.uk. 

In this case, www.yourBusiness.com  and   www.yourBusiness.co.uk   are both "custom domains", ie web-addressed without "blogspot.com" or "wordpress.com" at the halt of the address.

To purpose www.yourBusiness.com, you lot demand to either purpose Blogger's custom domain sorcerer - available nether Settings > Basic > Publshing +Buy a custom domain.

To purpose www.yourBusiness.co.uk   (or whatsoever other type of URL that Blogger doesn't offer), you lot demand to firstly purchase the URL from some other domain registrar, as well as hence purpose a similar physical care for to use that URL for your blog.

Sometimes things become wrong

If you're lucky - as well as most people are - hence setting upward your weblog to purpose your custom domain is a smoothen process:   at that spot are a few minutes where your novel address doesn't quite travel for you, as well as a few hours spell it doesn't travel for people unopen to the works.   But the computers all grab upward alongside each other fairly speedily as well as inside 24-72 hours it's working perfectly.

But sometimes things become incorrect - as well as that is when you lot run into this message inwards 1 of Blogger's screens:

Another weblog or Google Site is already using this address

Mostly (pretty much always, inwards fact), this doesn't hateful that some other weblog is using the address that you lot but paid $10 for.

What it agency is that something has gone incorrect alongside the physical care for of setting upward the domain for your blog.   Nothing more, as well as zero less.

You tin flame banking concern jibe this past times looking at what happens when you lot endeavor to navigate to the address.   Most likely you lot volition run into something similar this:

That's what I run into using Google Chrome - other browsers volition display it a petty differently, as well as Google may alter the motion painting from fourth dimension to tile.   But the telephone commutation business office is the "404" fault code, which says that at that spot is no website currently using the address.

How to create it

The Masterclass:

Chuck from Nitecruzr.net has late published a comprehensive article close the diverse sources of this message, as well as how to create it.    As he explains, it's non hence much an fault message every bit a symptom.   Basically, it's Blogger's way of maxim "there's a work alongside your URL setup".

His post may hold off daunting at first; there's a lot of technical language, as well as you lot demand to delve into all sorts of places you lot may non guide keep looked before, including setting upward an administrator occupation concern human relationship for your domain inwards the registrar. And but to arrive to a greater extent than complicated, Google changed they way that they offering domains (by removing costless single-user accounts inwards Google Apps) inwards Jan 2013, hence immediately it also depends on when you lot purchased the domain, too.   But it's worth trying to travel out the problem, as well as its solution yourself, earlier bespeak for assist (see below). You volition acquire close how Blogger industrial plant alongside custom domains, as well as it stops the help-forum people beingness overloaded alongside questions.

Methods that used to work

When I've had this work inwards the past, the get-go affair I did was to banking concern jibe that Google Sites was disabled on my Apps account. This was easy, as well as oftentimes effective, but I suspect it's non hence relevant whatsoever more.

Another older approach was to travel into the custom-domain into the Magical Custom Domain Form, as well as hold off 48 hours to run into if Google guide keep fixed it. In the background, the Google staff would banking concern jibe domain settings as well as create upward problems if they could. However it looks similar that physical care for isn't supported whatsoever more: clicking the link immediately brings upward a message

We're sorry.The shape at this URL could non travel found. Make certain that you lot guide keep the correct URL as well as that the possessor of the shape hasn't deleted it. 

Asking for help

If you lot actually cannot travel out a solution, hence post a inquiry inwards the Blogger Product Forum - I unremarkably purpose the "How exercise I" category.    Include:

• Your blog's URL     (eg   yourBusiness.blogspot.com)
• The URL you lot are trying to purpose   (eg yourBusiness.com or yourBusiness.co.uk)
• Whether you lot bought the URL thru Blogger, or from some other domain registrar
• Details of all fault messages you lot are seeing

Post the details into a new question (use the big crimson "Post a Question")button - don't endeavor to hijack soul else's question, because their work as well as solution volition likely travel different, for this exceptional fault message.

Make certain your inquiry has a meaningful title   (eg  "Custom domain - some other weblog or site is hosted"):   many helpers don't read questions alongside generic titles similar "help" which don't hand whatsoever clues close what skills are needed to respond the question.

If your inquiry doesn't acquire answered inwards a hateful solar daytime or two, post an update inwards the same thread - fifty-fifty something every bit uncomplicated every bit the discussion "bump" volition guide keep your inquiry upward to the meridian of the pile again, as well as tell the helpers that you lot are actively looking for assist alongside the problem.

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