How to Setup Blogger Custom Domain With Name.com

by Sushant Risodkar on September 23, 2008

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From 3-4 days many people are asking that they have a domain from name.com but they are having trouble setting it up for their blogger custom domain.

Here are few e-mails from the people:

Sent to Link Number: 2b04c
Sender Name: rky
Sender Email Address: XYZ@gmail.com

hi i buy doamin name via name.com
how i setup that domain name for my blogger blog please give me step by step solution for that problem …

Sent to Link Number: 2b04c
Sender Name: abhijote
Sender Email Address: XYZ@gmail.com

i have buy a new domain through name.com please give me a detail procedure to set up it on blogger account..
i really need your help

As I told that I bought this domain from name.com just for $6 with many features.I also got many problems setting that domain and some people might have seen strange things happening at that time but no worries now it’s all perfect.


People are facing problems with name.com because there is no tutorial available for this domain registrar on net. So to help those people’s I m writing this simple tutorial to set-up your blogger custom domain using name.com


*Please Follow the Instructions Carefully*

1.I assume you already have a name.com account and bought one domain name. Login to name.com and you will be directed to your account.

2.Now select the domain from the list to modify.Use the pic. below for reference:

3.Now you will be redirected to the domain management page.Check that the Domain Lock is unlocked.Also check that you are using the default name servers that are ns1.name.com and ns2.name.com without that the URL forwarding wont work.

4.Then from the control panel in the sidebar,click DNS Management.There add a CNAME Record type with record host : www ,Record answer : ghs.google.com ,TTL : 1800 and click submit.


5.Then go back to the domain management again.There from the sidebar click URL Forwarding option.In that Page Fill the Following things:

Point to : http://yourblogname.blogspot.com
Using : redirect URL forwarding (301)
Page Title : (Anything you want,Can be filled afterwords)
Meta Tags : (Can be filled afterwords)

Click Update!

6.Since name.com domains comes with google apps you will have to do more thing.Activate Google Apps for that site.Then move to your Google Apps account of that domain and disable Start Page Feature from it.

7.Wait for few mins.Then go to your blogger account>Settings>Publishing>Advanced Settings>And fill the things similar as i did just change the domain name.


7.Save it!

And check your new domain name.If you get any problem,feel free to ask me or you can also send me your account info via contact link in tabs and i will setup your domain free of charge :)
Or if not you can take help of name.com support.

You might be thinking What’s the difference between a 301 Redirect and a 302 Redirect?

301 Redirect
Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward To field using a “301 Moved Permanently” HTTP response. The HTTP 301 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) that the location has permanently moved.

302 Redirect
Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward To field using a “302 Moved Temporarily” HTTP response. The HTTP 302 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) that the location has temporarily moved.

If I use a 301 redirect on my site to point the www and non-www versions to the same version, do I still need to use this feature?
You don’t have to use it, as we can follow the redirects. However, you still can benefit from using this feature in two ways: we can more easily consolidate links to your site and over time, we’ll direct our crawl to the preferred version of your pages.

If I use this feature, should I still use a 301 redirect on my site?
You don’t need to use it for Googlebot, but you should still use the 301 redirect, if it’s available. This will help visitors and other search engines. Of course, make sure that you point to the same URL with the preferred domain feature and the 301 redirect.

So you got any problem now?


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Anonymous September 25, 2008 at 4:03 am

hi..
thanks for write this step by step tutorial for setup custom domain with name.com.

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Sakib September 29, 2008 at 8:02 pm

why don’t you install wordpress? yes, to use blogger – will care of your security/bandwidth/ and free one gb space. that’s why? but blogger sucks :(

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Typhoon September 30, 2008 at 2:57 pm

Yea that’s true that i m using blogger due to the reasons you said blogger only sucks in terms of lack of templates and plugins/hacks.I m not thinking of wordpress because i don’t know know anything about it plus i would have to invest in the hosting for it which i m not able to do so as a student..Handling Wordpress is damm hard(I think).Blogger is easy n Fast to understand. :) But in future, i think after a year or so i might think of doing so.

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WP for Beginners October 17, 2008 at 8:30 pm

hey

Following your instruction, I have done the redirection but somehow I keep getting this error”Another blog is already hosted at this address.”

Am I missing something here?

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Typhoon October 18, 2008 at 9:44 am

You might have done something wrong in setting up dns..You can send your name.com info to me I will set up your blog for free :)

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WP for Beginners October 18, 2008 at 5:36 pm

what exactly do you need? username and password? Anyway, thanks for your response and kind help…

Yan

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Yan Susanto October 19, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Hey

I’m just wondering if you’d be kind enough to help me, what exactly do I need to send you?

Yan

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Typhoon October 19, 2008 at 1:13 pm

@WP for Beginners

Yes ,I need those information both for blogger and name.com which you can send me through CONTACT link if you still facing the problem.

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WP for Beginners October 19, 2008 at 4:07 pm

OK just give you all the details through your contact form. Somehow I didn’t manage to make it work…

Thanks!

Yan

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Gary March 30, 2009 at 1:23 am

Hi Guru,

Thanks for the posts and I have a question. If I am redirecting using 301 from my custom domain to google blogspot, will the sitemeter or other web counter services calculate my visitor tracking correctly?

Let’s say Average Visitor Per Day, Duration spend on each site, Total visitor per site, etc etc.

I am asking this because as far as I know if we’re redirecting from ghs.google.com to our domain and from our domain 301 to googleblog, we’re using 2 websites. How well will the sitemeter or custom web counter track our visitors accurately?

Thanks for your help,
Gary

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Typhoon March 31, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Hi Gary.
For this I would suggest you to get a new tracking script for your custom domain because obviously users who will type and will come from your .blogspot domain will be redirected to your custom domain and hence will be counted automatically but If you use the tracking script which was made for your just .blogspot domain then it might not give you proper results.

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bajepayel April 30, 2009 at 10:24 pm

I am getting error putting the domain in blogger. My domain in name.com

here is the caps

http://i43.tinypic.com/219pev8.jpg

Please help me.

Thanks

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Typhoon May 1, 2009 at 2:38 pm

Have your properly setup the URL forwarding to your blogspot domain as I mentioned in this post? Please remember that it takes time when you change your name server or DNS server settings. So please wait for approximately 24hrs after changing the name server settings.

If you still get some problem, Send me your blogger and name.com log in details by using the contact form on this blog. I will be happily helping you :)

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amprawin May 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm

hey thankz for this xcelnt tutorial!!
i have setup my domain

but i get this error This web page has a redirect loop.

please help me :) :( :( :(

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Typhoon May 1, 2009 at 2:34 pm

I am not getting a Redirect Loop right now. I am getting a Server Not Found error. So please check it.

Redirect Loop occurs when your server is not able to respond properly. So please chk that.

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amprawin May 1, 2009 at 3:54 pm

thankz!! a lot:)
this site rock!!!!!!!!! :)

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Jiya May 6, 2009 at 4:37 pm

Hi there, For custom domains, i read here, http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/06/how-to-set-u... that you can either use http://yoursite.com or http//:www.yoursite.com…is there any way we can make both work?

Also, with name.com, the custom domain price is $8.99, you say you bought it for $6 how, that would be coo!

Thanks.

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peter May 25, 2009 at 9:38 pm

hi.. please explain the step 6… i dont know where to go for disabling the start page feature….

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rky July 5, 2009 at 8:29 am

Thanks for step by step tutorial for setting blogger custom domain with name.com.i also registered one of my domain with name.com ..
But i warn every name.com user don’t enable Google app .first you setup custom domain on blogger then enable Google app.

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Typhoon July 6, 2009 at 3:42 pm

I don’t know properly about the Google App functionality.I just added it because i did the same way.

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Admin July 10, 2009 at 1:11 am

I have tried all these options. I tried even enabling google apps. But i dont really know what to do with google apps. Except step no 6 i have done everything but no use. Can u please help me out setting up my blog in blogger and name.com.

My blog is http:/www.bollywoodtalking.com this is working but naked domain is not working.
.-= Admin´s last blog ..Latest Namitha bikini – Rarest collection =-.

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Typhoon July 10, 2009 at 5:23 pm

Please mail me your problem along with your name.com login info and blogger account info so that I can look into the problem more properly.

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Admin July 11, 2009 at 12:00 pm

@Typhoon,

Do you mean by username and password for both name.com and blogger.com account? How can i share these information? Can i believe you?
.-= Admin´s last blog ..Latest Namitha bikini – Rarest collection =-.

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Swashata July 16, 2009 at 2:45 pm

Wow! Thanks a lot man :) I just switched to my own domain from name.com! Everything was just like a charm!

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orlando condo rentals September 5, 2009 at 11:22 pm

Thanks a lot!. You save my day.

Your tutorial is awesome! everything works well.
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Gopi September 10, 2009 at 12:40 am

Regarding step 6: Just log in to your google apps account and in the service settings tab, disable the google sites and this will remove your start page.

Thanks for the nice tutorial!

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Typhoon September 10, 2009 at 7:56 pm

Glad to know that it helped you in setting up your blogger custom domain..

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nindrianto October 4, 2009 at 11:51 am

thanks bozz…I did it. but, really, setting custom domain blogspot from name.com is rather difficult than from godaddy.com…many bloggers also have same troubles with this, and when I posted about this article, they ask me to help their troubles….once again, thank you for this article.
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Khang Tran October 9, 2009 at 9:54 am

Thanks for your tutorial, my blog now works.

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Typhoon October 10, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Glad to see that. Enjoy your new domain ;)

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Mandar Salvi November 8, 2009 at 9:19 am

Can you set up blogger and custom domain for me?

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junaid abbasi November 29, 2009 at 1:34 pm

Hi all,
i use this artical and set up a custom domain but it only redirect,shows blogspot adress after redirecting i want to hide this blogspot address..
my site xgamelinks{dot}com.
plz help i am in big trobble…..
plz help

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Typhoon November 29, 2009 at 1:53 pm

Please mail me using the contact form with your account information of both places.

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Shivaji May 3, 2010 at 6:57 pm

Thank you for your guide..you have saved my precious time….

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Meng Fong October 6, 2011 at 11:32 pm

Thanks for this post. I followed your instructions and it worked.
The How-To’s at both Blogger.com and name.com was a tad too difficult to understand.

Meng

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Robin October 29, 2011 at 9:57 pm

Getting broken images .. am i the one facing such error in this page ??

Between, the steps are really great to complete the custom domain setup with blogger. Thanks.

Robin
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Sushant Risodkar November 1, 2011 at 8:55 pm

Are you still having this problem?

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