How To Redirect Your Blogspot Blog To A Custom Domain

Redirecting your Blogspot blog to your own domain can be a real pain in the neck if you: a) have very little knowledge about Internet and, b) you host your domain on an unpopular domain registrar with poor customer support regarding the matter. I happened to be both.

(What I mean as unpopular is domain registrar other than GoDaddy.com and SEDO).

If you land on this blog page of mine after searching "how to redirect blog to custom domain" or its varieties, then almost certainly you've known how frustrating it was.

Despite its importance, it's very surprising that only a few helps can be found online. The fact that almost ALL of them use GoDaddy as a sample case isn't helping either. Furthermore, both Google and Blogspot help pages regarding the matter are so useless for Internet illiterates.So, here I will try to explain how to do it.

Note: the following instructions are only for the non-GoDaddy registrar.

Here we are:

1. Log in your domain registrar page. Search either DNS management or DNS services (anything with "DNS" term) tab. Click it.

2. Before you proceed, make sure that the servers on which your domain name (let's use redirect.com for an example) is hosted (called Nameservers/NS) have been set to a setting that is preliminary to use the "DNS" services above (some registrar made it by default, but the rest require you to set/change them first.). To do this, search for "Nameservers"/"NS" tab, make the change accordingly as instructed (it's only one click away usually).

3. After you set the nameservers/NS records as required, search for the Alias Records/A Records tab. Click it.

4. Most likely you'll find a page that contains your domain name (redirect.com) in form of either redirect.com or www.redirect.com or both, each of which has a certain IP address as Destination/Value.

5. Copy both name and IP address first to notepad (just in case) then click "Modify"/"Change" Records tab.

6. Edit/add/replace the existing records with IP addresses suggested by Google here so that the records look EXACTLY like the following (Note: use the reirect.com instead of www.redirect.com

Name   redirect.com          redirect.com redirect.com redirect.com

Destination/Value IP 216.239.32.21 216.239.34.21 216.239.36.21 216.239.38.21

7. Next, search for the CNAME Records tab. Click it. Modify or add the records with these:

On the empty Host/Name box next to your domain name (redirect.com) type www (without the dot "."), then in the Value/Destination box type ghs.google.com.

8. In your domain registrar page (it can be the same/different page with which the "DNS" settings are) search for Forward/Domain Forwarding tab. Click it, then enter www.redirect.com as the Value/Destination address.

You're halfway done.Next, log in to Blogspot. Click the Setting tab of the blog you want to redirect and then click the Publishing tab

8. Click the Switch To: Custom Domain. Click the Advanced Settings. 

9. Enter the www.redirect.com in the box. Check the check box next to "Redirect redirect.com to www.redirect.com". Save your setting.

And that's it! Bear in mind that all of these could take 24-72 hours to take effect. (Less than a day in my case, though). So, don't worry if you found an error page while checking for the http://www.redirect.com

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