How To Add Custom Domain in Blogger

It is almost two years I have been blogging on blogger platform. A few months ago I had added custom domain www.iTTimesbd.com in my blog. I had also published a post after adding www.iTTimesbd.com domain. In that I had discussed about the importance of custom domain for Blogger blog. Today I am gonna show how to add custom domain in blogger.

Blogger is very dynamic and flexible platform for blogging. Using custom domain on Blogger is one of the example of flexibility. By default Blogger offer you to host your site on Blogspot.com. Beside that you can also host your site on your own custom domain like www.iTTimesbd.com. You can change your publishing option anytime without hampering your site.

Before We Start: To add custom domain on your Blogger blog you will have to have a registered domain. There are many companies and websites from whom you can buy domain. Here I am presenting some website name from where you can buy your desired domain name.

• EasyDNS.com
• GoDaddy.com
• Yahoo! Small Business
• ix web hosting
• 1and1

From the above list my personal choice is GoDaddy.com and this blog's domain www.iTTimesbd.com is also registered on GoDaddy.com. And here in this post I am showing the method of adding custom domain in blogger registered from GoDaddy.com. Lets see how to do it.

Adding Custom Domain in Blogger:

1. First log into your Blogger account and go to Dashboard.
2. Then click on Settings and choose Basic .
3. Then in the Publishing section click on +Add a Custom Domain link.
   
   
   
4. Then under Third-party domain settings type the domain name that your have purchased. Remember the domain name must be begin with www.
   
   
   
5. Now click View settings instructions to go to blogger official instruction page. Here in this page choose On top-level domain (www.example.com) option.
   
   
   
6. Then in the step 9 of the instruction page you will get 4 IP addresses. Copy and Save all 4 of them.
7. Now go back to your Blogger settings and click Save button. But it will not be saved. You will get an Error 32 message as shown in the below image.
8. Then under the Error 32 message you will see two fields Name, Label and Hosts Field and Destination, Target or Points To Field. Copy the Data of the both rows from these fields.
   
   
   
9. Now Log into your GoDaddy.com account and click on My Account then Select Manage my Domain.
   
   
   
10. Here you see your purchased domain name. Click on your Domain name.
    
    
    
11. Then click on the DNS Zone File tab and choose Use classic DNS Manager.
    
    
    
12. Then click on Edit button to edit the DNS Zone File.
    
    
    
13. Then under Cname (Alias) menu click on Quick Add button. (Look at 1st part of the below image)
14. Then in the Edit box enter www in the first box and ghs.google.com in the second box.
    
    
    
15. Now click on Quick Add button again and Enter details from second row of the data you saved in steps 8.
16. Then under A (Host) menu again click on Quick Add button. (See below image)
17. Here Host will be @ and the Point to value should be one IP address provided by Google that you saved in step 6. And these IP address should be like below.



216.239.32.21 216.239.34.21 216.239.36.21 216.239.38.21



18. Add all 4 IPs one by one and Delete the old host as you won't need it anymore.
    
19. Then at the top of the page click on Save Zone File button to save your settings.
20. Now again go back to your Blogger settings and in the publishing section click Save button to save the custom domain. But still you may get Error message because the registration process takes 24-48 hours. So don't worry come again letter to Blogger after 24-48 hours and repeat Step 2 to 4. And click Save button.
21. After your domain start working click Edit link next to domain name on the Blogger settings page.
22. Then Check the Redirect...to... check box below your site address to ensure that the visitors can visit your site without www. And click Save button.
    

That's it. Now visit your site with the new address. If you face any problem then don't forget to leave your valuable comment.

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