Custom Domain In Blogspot

I first saw this article here and it was written by my online friend Joy. However I noticed that her blog is no longer active so I wanted to post here some simple steps which she outlined on how to use your own custom Domain and have it hosted in blogspot.

Here's the thing, let's say you have your own domain purchased in GoDaddy and you want blogger to host it .. so here's how!

1. Log in to your blogger account and go to Settings>Publishing

2. Set the publishing to your blogspot address

3. Log in to your GoDaddy account and access the domain that you want to update

4. Select 'Enable Forwarding'
-select 302 Moved Temporarily
-forward to http://name.blogspot.com

5. Select 'Enable Masking' and click OK

6. Open a new browser and type your new domain http://name.com. It should now redirect to your blogspot adress (http://name.blogspot.com). It might take awhile before the domain gets redirected to blogspot so be patient.

7. When the domain redirection is working, go back to GoDaddy account and access Nameservers

8. Check Hosting Name Servers then click OK.

Your nameservers should say:
Name Server 1: NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server 2: NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

9. Now, click 'Total DNS Control and MX Records'

10. Under the CNAME section, click 'Edit' for the www entry

11. Under points to host name, change @ to ghs.google.com

12. Login to your blogger account then go back to Settings > Publishing

13. Change publishing to custom domain and type in your new domain:
http://www.name.com

14. Save Settings

15. Check redirect name.com to www.name.com

16. Save Settings


Now, I followed these instructions and it worked for me properly. Should you have any questions then I am sorry better try again because I cannot answer them. ^_^