Using A Custom Domain For Something Other Than Your Blogger Blog

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

Blogger makes it rattling slow for you lot to purchase a "custom" domain cite (ie URL) for your blog.   Instead of beingness www.fred-fish.blogspot.com, you lot tin easily hold out 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 job in addition to lets you lot modify to the other ane 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 upward a domain administrator concern human relationship (in Google Apps), but fifty-fifty this is optional.  

But at that topographic point may come upward a fourth dimension when you lot desire to job your domain for to a greater extent than than simply a blog:  eg, Fred may desire to job www.fred-fish.com to sell line-fishing trips or equally the populace gateway to a massive database of line-fishing achievements, neither of which are functions that Blogger (easily) provides.

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

• Move your blog away from the domain
  (you mightiness motion it job a subdomain or virtual host off the domain subsequently on - but the kickoff pace is simply to complimentary upward 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 job it for.

Even though you lot purchased the domain using Blogger, your access to it is through the Google Apps command panel: from at that topographic point 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 inwards to Blogger alongside the concern human relationship that owns the domain.

2  From the Dashboard, select   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 direct keep a few hours (I've heard 72) for these changes to apply to computers all to a greater extent than or less the world, hence people who become to your custom domain may even hence larn re-directed to your spider web log for a 24-hour interval or two.

Also, Google (and other search engines) volition even hence direct keep indexed links to your spider web log contents at your custom domain.  These volition gradually hold out replaced when

• you set novel content at your custom domain and 
• it gets indexed yesteryear the search engines and 
• the novel content-indexing replaces information inwards the cached Google results inwards diverse computers to a greater extent than or less the world.

This tin direct keep some weeks, though, hence your spider web log may fille out ane some search traffic, in addition to people who search for your novel site may run into strange results inwards 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 upward the domain administrator for your domain.

• If you lot haven't done this already, you lot require to find the relevant email in addition to gear upward the concern human relationship now.   
• If you lot direct keep done it, you lot require 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 - set inwards the correct value for your domain name, without www.  or http:// at the start.    Enter the captcha details, in addition to if you lot direct keep gear upward an administrator concern human relationship the details volition hold out emailed to your backup secondary address. 
• If you lot never created an administrator concern human relationship in addition to cannot notice the electronic mail to practise it now, job this help-process.  Choose:
  - I never created an administrator account, then
  - I signed upward at Google.com/a in addition to purchased a domain cite at the same time
  
  You tin alone job the help-process after you lot direct keep un-linked your blog from the domain (ie steps 1-2 inwards a higher house addition left fourth dimension for the modify to hold out applied to Google's servers - somewhere betwixt a few minutes in addition to a few hours seems to work).  If you lot endeavor to job it land your spider web log is even hence using the domain, you lot terminate upward beingness directed dorsum to Blogger.

Note:   if none of these processes assistance you lot larn command of your domain administrator, banking corporation gibe the resources inwards this article from Nitecruzr nearly the topic.

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

v  Log in alongside the admin concern human relationship in addition to password from Step 3.

vi  Go to the Domain Settings tab

seven  Go to the Domain Names sub-tab

8  Choose the Advanced DNS settings link.

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

• Your domain-registrar sign-in cite in addition to password,  
• Your domain-registrar client service PIN - inwards example you lot require to contact the registrar's client services, 
• Contact details for the domain registrar's client service subdivision  
• A link that you lot tin job to larn to the to DNS console

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

10  Follow the directions at that topographic point to make the domain changes.

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


If you lot require to a greater extent than help, banking corporation gibe out the Google Apps assistance forum.

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Where to notice 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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