Info Using A Custom Domain For Something Other Than Your Blogger Blog

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

Blogger makes it really slow for you lot to purchase a "custom" domain advert (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 exercise in addition to lets you lot modify to the other i 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 upwardly a domain administrator concern human relationship (in Google Apps), but fifty-fifty this is optional.  

But at that spot may come upwardly a fourth dimension when you lot desire to exercise your domain for to a greater extent than than only a blog:  eg, Fred may desire to exercise 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 exercise a Google-Blogger purchased domain for something other than a Blogspot blig, you lot postulate to:

• Move your blog away from the domain
  (you mightiness movement it exercise a subdomain or virtual host off the domain afterwards on - but the commencement footstep is only to complimentary upwardly the domain for other use.
• Change the domain-name-server settings for the domain to signal to the correct house for the "something else" that you lot desire to exercise 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 spot 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 amongst 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 weblog name.

This changes your weblog dorsum to www.YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogspot.com, in addition to removes the DNS records that pointed your weblog to your custom-URL.

It may stimulate got a few hours (I've heard 72) for these changes to apply to computers all only about the world, hence people who become to your custom domain may nonetheless larn re-directed to your weblog for a solar daytime or two.

Also, Google (and other search engines) volition nonetheless stimulate got indexed links to your weblog contents at your custom domain.  These volition gradually hold out replaced when

• you pose novel content at your custom domain and 
• it gets indexed past times the search engines and 
• the novel content-indexing replaces information inwards the cached Google results inwards diverse computers only about the world.

This tin stimulate got some weeks, though, hence your weblog may fille out i some search traffic, in addition to people who search for your novel site may meet 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 upwardly the domain administrator for your domain.

• If you lot haven't done this already, you lot postulate to find the relevant email in addition to railroad train the concern human relationship now.   
• If you lot stimulate got done it, you lot postulate 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 - pose 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 stimulate got railroad train 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 exercise it now, exercise this help-process.  Choose:
  - I never created an administrator account, then
  - I signed upwardly at Google.com/a in addition to purchased a domain advert at the same time
  
  You tin alone exercise the help-process after you lot stimulate got un-linked your blog from the domain (ie steps 1-2 higher upwardly summation 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 endeavour to exercise it piece your weblog is nonetheless using the domain, you lot goal upwardly beingness directed dorsum to Blogger.

Note:   if none of these processes assist you lot larn command of your domain administrator, cheque the resources inwards this article from Nitecruzr most the topic.

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

five  Log in amongst the admin concern human relationship in addition to password from Step 3.

half dozen  Go to the Domain Settings tab

vii  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 advert in addition to password,  
• Your domain-registrar client service PIN - inwards illustration you lot postulate to contact the registrar's client services, 
• Contact details for the domain registrar's client service subdivision  
• A link that you lot tin exercise to larn to the to DNS console

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

10  Follow the directions at that spot to make the domain changes.

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


If you lot postulate to a greater extent than help, cheque out the Google Apps assist forum.

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Where to notice to a greater extent than information

Automatically renewing your custom domain

Transferring ownership of your weblog to some other Google account

Blogger in addition to other Google products - an overview

Recovering command of your custom domain (external link)