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There are two ways you can have a custom domain with a Blogger blog. The first is to publish by FTP, but it means you have to have your own hosting. In that case you might as well use Wordpress. If you have a domain, but want Google to host your blog, use the Custom Domain option.
First you need to buy a domain name. I bought mine from NameCheap, because of a special promotion, but GoDaddy is one of the most popular registrars. Their prices are also very competitive.
Next, you have to set your domain to show the Blogger blog. From your registrar, create a CNAME record that points to ghs.google.com. With NameCheap the way to do it is go to Host Records, and create a CNAME alias with subdomain of your choice, and set the URL to ghs.google.com. With GoDaddy the page to do it is titled Total DNS Control And MX Records. There, add a new CNAME record with the subdomain (like www or blog) as Name and ghs.google.com as the Host Name. The procedure is similar with other registrars.
After you have created the CNAME record, you should wait a few hours for domain name servers to update. Otherwise your blog will be completely unavailable for some time. Then go to Blogger Dashboard, and Publishing Settings. Click on Custom Domain.
From there, switch to advanced settings.
Write the custom domain address here. Remember to use the same subdomain, for which you set the CNAME record.
View the blog, and see if everything works correctly. If not, it could be that the domain name servers haven’t updated yet. Switch back to BlogSpot address for a few hours, and try again. If it still doesn’t work, there may be something wrong with your CNAME settings, so you might want to check out everything again.
I had no trouble with this, and the new domain worked after only three hours of me registering it.
by Sutocu | September 3, 2007 
I never knew that setting up a freely hosted blogger blog was so easy. It really make me reconsider my hosting fees.
why are you on a do-follow blogroll and your comment area is nofollow?
Blogger shows the comments as nofollow, if you are on the page, where you post the comment. On the post page, such as this one, the comments are dofollow.
There’s nothing I can do to change the comment page, since the template does not affect it. Hope this makes the thing clear!
I’m trying to set up Blog.Domain.com where “domain” is my domain.
I bought through Namecheap, the problem is the DNS has already been set for my hoster. I dont see an option on Namecheap to have the www go to my regular hoster and blog. go to google via the CNAME change.
And in my ISP Yohost, I dont see a place to set blog. over to google’s servers.
Confused? Can you help?
I’ve basically done the same, I just have not yet developed any content for the www/root domain. How you do it depends whether you have transferred the DNS to your host or not. Assuming not, modify the domain in Namecheap, and go to the All Host Records page. In subdomain settings, create an entry with ‘blog’ as the hostname, ‘ghs.google.com’ as the URL, and CNAME (Alias) as the record type. Then fill the @/www hostnames to your webhost’s URL, depending on where you host your site.
Hope this helps!
I never knew they had this feature in blogger….
I might register a domain name for my blog..
THANKS for Sharing!!
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Worked. Thanks!
if it worked for him,maybe i’ll give it a try next
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