Comments on The Real Blogger Status: Google Custom Domain - Case Study #1

Chetan, This would be better discussed in GBH: So...

2009-05-28T11:50:18.507-07:00

Chetan,

This would be better discussed in GBH: Something Is Broken, or in Nitecruzr Dot Net - Blogging. Online forums are much easier to use, then Blogger Blog Commenting, for interactive problem solving.

Hello- I have completed custom setup on blogger to...

2009-05-28T11:45:34.960-07:00

Hello- I have completed custom setup on blogger to direct my blog mottobiz.blogspot.com to www.mottobiz.com. However, its been more than 3 days & my site www.mottobiz.com is still showing my old site content. I have also added the cname record pointing to ghs.google.com.
Do I need to delete A name records or leave them as it is? My site DNS settings are currently showing 2 A name records (mottobiz & *.mottobiz.com) pointing to some ip addresses.

I truly appreciate your support.

Thanks in advance,

Chetan- AKA Mottobiz

Hey Laibeus,I suspect that you need to tell us mor...

2009-01-02T05:06:54.532-08:00

Hey Laibeus,

I suspect that you need to tell us more about your problem. This is where I highly recommend that you post in GBH: Something Is Broken, and PLEASE provide the domain URL. Help us to help you properly - use community help!

Hmm,If I delete my GoDaddy A record, the non-www e...

2009-01-02T00:30:00.000-08:00

Hmm,

If I delete my GoDaddy A record, the non-www errors out.

What I did instead is to trace the IP of ghs.google.com and ghs.l.google.com and use one of the IPs that showed up.

I still have to observe tho, as I'm sure there is a reason Google is not suggesting any IP addresses - they might be changing IPs frequently or randomly.

In any case, I don't know how to fix the "no-A_record" error when visiting the non-www address. T_T

Matte,As far as I see, your blog is now accessible...

2008-10-05T21:39:33.085-07:00

Matte,

As far as I see, your blog is now accessible from all 3 aliases. You might want to continue by reading Custom Domain Publishing, And Google Apps, where you should find the updated detail which you seem to need.

Hi Chuck. Nice to visit you again. I see that now ...

2008-10-05T17:17:00.000-07:00

Hi Chuck. Nice to visit you again.
I see that now my blog is accessible from both .blogspot and also .com
What i would like is to be available just the .com address, and that when people type in .blogspot to be redirected to .com
How to achieve that?
Under "publishing" i have the option "redirect mysite.com to www.mysite.com, it won't let me; anyway, is this latter the option to change? I have one domain, no subdomain.
Thanks so much, really.
Matte

Matte,Your web page is working from here. You sho...

2008-10-04T22:40:23.205-07:00

Matte,

Your web page is working from here. You should be visible worldwide by now.

Chuck, can't believe i did all correct the first t...

2008-10-04T21:31:00.000-07:00

Chuck, can't believe i did all correct the first time? Sure i really don't have to change anything?
Will they see me (eventually) worldwide?
Thanks so much for your reply and kind help.
Matte.

Matte,Here is your setup:visualfragments.com. 3600...

2008-10-04T20:09:43.831-07:00

Matte,

Here is your setup:
visualfragments.com. 3600 IN A 64.233.179.121
visualfragments.com. 3600 IN A 66.249.81.121
visualfragments.com. 3600 IN A 72.14.207.121
www.visualfragments.com. 3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

That's spot on. Leave it be, and wait.

Hi! i am still in "transition period" to custom do...

2008-10-04T18:27:00.000-07:00

Hi! i am still in "transition period" to custom domain, so soon to say. Anyway, in DSN i see i have the three codes you mentioned, and a third one: 72.14.207.121
Is it ok to have it or shall i delete it? i only have one main domain and no sub domains (www.visualfragments.com).
Thanks so much for looking into this, much appreciated.
Ciao,
M.

Yup removing the A record in GoDaddy and pointing ...

2008-04-10T02:55:00.000-07:00

Yup removing the A record in GoDaddy and pointing the CName record (www) to ghs.google.com worked for me. Now both www and non-www versions work! Took about an hour to "kick in".

I've been having the same issue trying to get http...

2008-04-10T02:10:00.000-07:00

I've been having the same issue trying to get http://leadgenseo.com to resolve to the blog which is currently at http://www.leadgenseo.com. The www. version works fine using the Goolge/Blogger/GoDaddy instructions, but the non-www brings up GoDaddy's parked page.

I just removed my A record in GoDaddy and now have none. Let's see if it works...

Deborah,Here's what I see.www.deborahvogts.com. 36...

2008-04-07T11:01:02.481-07:00

Deborah,

Here's what I see.

www.deborahvogts.com. 3600 IN CNAME deborahvogts.com.

Here's what you need.

www.deborahvogts.com. 3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

Hi Chuck,I think I've followed your directions acc...

2008-04-07T10:50:00.000-07:00

Hi Chuck,

I think I've followed your directions accurately, however, when I ping my name, I get "ping request could not find host ...

Need help. Thanks.

Great Job!I was kinda lost in all the techy stuff ...

2008-03-29T10:34:00.000-07:00

Great Job!

I was kinda lost in all the techy stuff you were writing about but the screenshots helped a lot. I have 5 godaddy domains. I already successfully tested one. Back then I had to type www to arrive at my website. After I deleted the A Host, within 2 minutes sportbookers.org is already forwarding to www.sportsbookers.org.

Thanks man!

I did the same for another website sportsbloggers.org and it worked also.

I love your information! It is very helpful. I wis...

2008-03-27T01:17:00.000-07:00

I love your information! It is very helpful. I wish I had found your information instead of the help I received. I ended up deleting my blog, so I recreated part of it. Now when I select custom domain, through the advanced settings, it tells me that another blog is host at my address mydomain.com. Any suggestions? I would appreciate any help you can give me. You seem to be the only sensible one and I'm so glad I found you. :)

RD,Some browsers will return a "404 Not Found" ("T...

2008-03-21T16:31:09.722-07:00

RD,

Some browsers will return a "404 Not Found" ("The blog you were looking for was not found.") from DNS errors. Try a 301 (NOT 302) Redirect from "rationaldemocracy.com" to "www.rationaldemocracy.com", to start.

If that doesn't help, post in GBH: Something Is Broken, and let's try interactive problem analysis.

I've gone over both of your case studies with a fi...

2008-03-21T16:05:00.000-07:00

I've gone over both of your case studies with a fine tooth comb and I'll admit you've gotten me farther than Blogger's help pages. However, the best I've been able to get is a notice saying, "The blog you were looking for was not found."

My www CNAME is pointed to ghs.google.com and I've deleted the ANAME record.

In Blogger, I've pointed my blog (rational-democracy.blogspot.com) to "rationaldemocracy.com" (Not, "www.rationaldemocracy.com")

Now, when I point my web browser at "rationaldemocracy.com" it is immediately forwarded to "www.rationaldemocracy.com" (and I like that). Unfortunately, this is where I get the error indicating, "The blog you were looking for was not found."

You've helped me make forward progress, but now I'm at a wall. I'm really at a loss on this one. Any suggestions???

- RD

I followed the steps that Jeff provided and it wor...

2008-02-14T17:24:00.000-08:00

I followed the steps that Jeff provided and it worked!!!! Finally the www address is linking to my blog and not just the http address. Many thanks!

Removing the A record was crucial. Thanks for the...

2008-02-09T06:50:00.000-08:00

Removing the A record was crucial. Thanks for the tip. Why hasn't google updated their instructions?

However, I wanted to tell you taht for my .org domain, I did have to add two CNAME aliases in my godaddy account:

www -> ghs.google.com
isuma.org -> ghs.google.com

Then, I checked redirect isuma.org to www.isuma.org.

I'm not sure why godaddy behaved differently for my .org TLD than the one in your case study.

I'm posting in case someone else has the same issue.

Many thanks for demystifying this process.

I'm glad I stumbled into your site. I have been tr...

2008-02-03T04:55:00.000-08:00

I'm glad I stumbled into your site. I have been trying to make domain freebiesoz.com work on my blog freebiesaustralia.blogspot.com. I have deleted the A record as you suggested by i still get an error message. like smartseek, i was told that it might take 24-48 hours to for my blog to show up. what do i do? i've sent an email to godaddy earlier today but have yet to hear from them.

THANKS SO MUCH! I also had another problem which ...

2007-12-04T11:37:00.000-08:00

THANKS SO MUCH! I also had another problem which prevented me from editing my GoDaddy subdomain info. I had to upgrade to Hosting Configuration 2.0 (from 1.0) found on the GoDaddy Account Summary page (after opening my domain). Once I upgraded, I went to the DNS Control Panel, deleted my A(Host) for the subdomain to which I wanted to point my blog, created a CNAME for the same subdomain, named it and then pointed to ghs.google.com. Within five minutes, my site was pointing to my subdomain. THANKS SO MUCH!

Thnx a lot dear.. U saved my day.!

2007-11-29T21:36:00.000-08:00

Thnx a lot dear.. U saved my day.!

Thanks so much. Deleting the A name made my site w...

2007-11-11T15:27:00.000-08:00

Thanks so much. Deleting the A name made my site work without the www (and I still can do www, too).
Thanks!

SmartSeek,You are experiencing one of the last pro...

2007-10-27T11:10:32.031-07:00

SmartSeek,

You are experiencing one of the last problems with Google Custom Domains - the fact that they are a solution, provided by Google, that depend upon a third party, in your case GoDaddy.

I have 2 custom domains setup through GoDaddy, neither of which have an "A" record, and both have the root, and the "www" alias, working fine. And they worked within 15 minutes after I setup the DNS, not 24 - 48 hours.

You can test your domain easily enough.

C:\>ping smartseek.com
Ping request could not find host smartseek.com. Please check the name and try again.

C:\>ping www.smartseek.com

Pinging ghs.l.google.com [66.249.81.121] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.249.81.121: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=247
Reply from 66.249.81.121: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=247
Reply from 66.249.81.121: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=247
Reply from 66.249.81.121: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=247

Ping statistics for 66.249.81.121:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 70ms, Maximum = 75ms, Average = 72ms

Keep working with GoDaddy.