News!! Using A Domain Purchased From About Other Domain Registrar Or Blogging-Platform For Your Blogger Blog

This article is nigh how to purpose a domain (URL) that was purchased exterior of Blogger / Google equally the custom-domain for your blog.
 

Blogger together with custom domains

set upwards an administrator concern human relationship for your domain.

But sometimes the URL y'all desire volition non hold out available through Google / Blogger:

• Maybe it's owned past times mortal else
• Maybe y'all ain it  already, because y'all purchased it through around other domain registrar.  
• Maybe y'all don't conduct maintain a credit-card thus cannot purchase through  Google.  
• Maybe it's for a province that Blogger doesn't sell domains for (eg Ireland).
• Maybe it's similar a shot good later September 2012, together with Blogger conduct maintain non re-introduced this service - together with don't expect probable to exercise so.

In these cases, y'all can't purpose Blogger to deal the domain.  Instead, y'all demand to purchase it around other way - or larn command of it if mortal else already owns it.

Then later y'all ain the domain, y'all demand to laid it upwards amongst the right settings to operate amongst Blogger.   To exercise this, y'all demand to purpose the settings data that Blogger provides together with the domain management tools (usually a command panel, aka CPanel) provided past times your domain registrar.

What to larn if y'all are buying a domain from a registrar

If y'all demand to (or already have) obtained them domain advert through a domain registrar, y'all demand to  purchase both:

• Name registration, and 
• DNS Hosting

You exercise non demand to purchase file-hosting from them, because Blogger provides this for our blogs.

There are around registrars that don't offering domain hosting separately from other hosting packages.   In this case, it's your alternative whether to purpose this companionship or to purpose around other one.   There is no terms inward purchasing file hosting that y'all are are non going to purpose - except that it's a waste matter of money.

If y'all abide by that your registrar doesn't offering DNS Hosting at all (unlikely) or that y'all don't desire to pay the fee that the accuse (which may hold out quite high if they alone sell it amongst file hosting), thus y'all demand to transfer the domain to around other registrar (which does offering DNS hosting) earlier y'all tin purpose it for your blog.

Setting upwards a domain for your blog

Once y'all conduct maintain command of the URL, follow these steps to fix your weblog on it:

Go into www.Blogger.com.

In  Settings > Basic >  Publishing > + Add a custom domain >  Switch to Custom Domain > 

1. Fill inward your domain name, then
2. Click Settings instructions
3. If y'all are told "You conduct maintain unsaved changes that volition hold out lost.   Leave this page anyway"  (or similar) - conduct OK / Leave this page.

This opens a page of instructions which contains the values y'all demand to purpose inward the side past times side step.

At the exceed of the page, y'all are asked the next question.

Where would y'all similar to host your blog?

•  On a top-level domain (www.example.com).

•  On a subdomain (foo.example.com).

If y'all don't sympathise this, merely click on the top-level-domain option.   (If y'all exercise sympathise it, y'all don't demand me to say y'all which alternative to choose!)



2)    In the domain-management tool for your domain, set upwards the DNS records (ie CNAME together with AName records), using the values from the page that is opened.

The way of setting upwards the domain records is different for every registrar.  You may demand to read the assist file, or inquire the domain registrar's client services division for help.   Or, if your domain registrar is GoDaddy, then this tool makes it particularly easy.  (That said - at the minute it is non setting upwards the 2nd CNAME tape for y'all - nonetheless demand to exercise it yourself.)

You demand to setup upwards 2 CNAME records.

• The get-go CNAME tape should conduct maintain your domain URL together with ghs.google.com
• The values for the 2nd CNAME tape are buried inward the text of the instructions page - I've underlined them inward the next moving-picture present to assist y'all abide by them.   (Hopefully Blogger volition brand this easier to read soon.)

You also demand to fix 4 ANAME records - encounter farther downwardly inward Google's instructions page for the values to purpose for these.


Wait an hour, together with thus larn into www.Blogger.com again   (NB  you may non demand to hold off the sum hour, but it's safer).  
NB   If y'all hold off likewise long, thus the 2nd CNAME combination that Google gave y'all volition conduct maintain expired, together with y'all volition conduct maintain to exercise that pace again,    So I'd propose waiting an hour, together with no more.


In Blogger, larn to  Settings > Basic > Publishing > + Add a custom domain >  Switch to Custom Domain > 

• Fill inward your domain advert (yes, again).
• Click Save (just nether the pane)

If larn a message

We conduct maintain non been able to verify your potency to this domain. Error 32. Please follow the settings instructions.

then y'all did non larn the set-up inward right inward your domain-registrar (or perhaps y'all haven't waited long plenty - or waited likewise long!)


If y'all exercise non encounter that message, thus your re-direction was successful.   However y'all may demand to allow a flake of fourth dimension (maybe a few minutes, perhaps equally long equally iii days) for the changes to conduct maintain effect.

Test whether they conduct maintain been applied past times typing your custom-domain into a web-browser:  y'all should hold out taken to your Blogger blog.

Ask for assist if y'all demand it:

There are many things that tin larn incorrect when y'all are setting upwards a custom domain, together with mistake messages similar "Another weblog is already hosted at this address" are quite common.

If the procedure described inward a higher house doesn't operate later iii days (72 hours), or if y'all larn an mistake message other than "site non found" earlier that,  the post service a new interrogation inward the Blogger Product Forum:  Include these details:

• Your custom-domain advert / URL, 
• Your blogsplot URL 
• The engagement andtime that y'all made the alter (don't forget to include your timezone)
• A description of what's happening.

Some of the helpers inward BPF are skillful at diagnosing what's incorrect together with telling y'all how to ready the domain, together with real happy to assist furnish y'all plough over them the data that the demand to operate out what's wrong. 

What if mortal else owns the domain y'all want

Before y'all start, y'all demand to own, or at to the lowest degree control, the domain y'all desire to us.

If mortal else currently owns a URL that y'all desire to use, y'all demand to:

• Negotiate amongst them, and get them to agree to transfer the domain to you
• Set upwards an account amongst a domain registrar
  (GoDaddy are the registrars that Google currently uses for Blogger users:  if y'all purpose them, y'all tin hold out sure enough that the domain-management tools provided volition exercise everything Blogger needs y'all to do.
  GoDaddy also conduct maintain a tool that makes it extra tardily to purpose 1 of their domains for Blogger - log inward to your GoDaddy account, together with go here to access it).
• Using that domain-registrar account, request that the domain is transferred to you
• Do anything else (eg brand a payment) that y'all told the electrical current possessor that y'all would exercise (eg brand a payment)
• Make sure enough that the electrical current possessor does whatever is needed to transfer the concern human relationship to you.

Even though Blogger provides around "nice" tools that brand URL management easier for "first fourth dimension buyers" of custom domains, they are non a domain registrar themselves.  This agency y'all cannot transfer a domain that was purchased through around other domain registrar to Blogger / Google.   Instead, y'all demand to follow the steps below to purpose the domain-name for your blog.

A banknote nigh Google Apps together with Sites domains

If y'all purchased a domain through Google Apps or Google Sites, thus y'all already conduct maintain command over it.

But y'all may demand to disable sites in the account management screen before y'all tin purpose the domain for your blog.

And later y'all conduct maintain done this, y'all tin go straight to Step 3 of the side past times side section, because the CName together with AName records are (already fix to purpose Google's servers.

---

Related Articles

Switching your weblog from 1 custom domain to another.

Using a custom domain that y'all ain for something other than Blogger

Why RSS / Subscribe to Posts matters for your blog.

Putting a custom search engine on your blog

Stop malicious purpose of your AdSense concern human relationship ID.

Tweet

Subscribe to receive free email updates: