Setting Up Blogspot With Your Own Domain Name

Google provides free blogging at blogspot.com, and allows you to point your personal domain to it. There two parts to this process. First, setting up your Blogspot account to permit this, and secondly, configuring the DNS for the domain with easyDNS.

Setting up your Google Account

Log into your Blogspot account at blogspot.com and then click on 'Settings' on the left-hand side

Now click on 'Publishing' - this will bring up the following screen











Click on 'Add a Custom Domain' to bring up the next screen











Click on 'Switch to Advanced Settings'



Now enter your domain name WITH the www prefix (in our example, we use www.easydnstest.com) and click 'save'







You'll see an error message. That's ok. Copy the two records it asks you to create and open a new browser window (leaving this one open).



Leave this window open, as we'll need to go back to it again in a few minutes.

Setting up your easyDNS account

Log into web.easydns.com and go to your domain management. Click on the left-hand side of the page (on DNS Settings) to see all your DNS settings.







Now find 'aliases CNAME Records' and click the little wrench icon to edit the records as below







Enter the two records as shown in the example below and click 'next'. Agree to the changes (it will show an error saying one of these is invalid - that's ok. It's just used by Google to verify you have control of the domain).



Now click on DNS Settings on the left again, and select the wrench for 'hosts A Records'









Now enter the records shown below, click next, and then confirm the changes.







Congratulations - you've set up the records for your domain at easyDNS

Finalizing the changes at Blogspot

Go back to the tab you have open for Blogspot, and now click 'Save' again at the bottom of the page. This time it will accept the changes, and bring you back to your main page.



Now click into 'Publishing' again as you did in the first steps (Settings -> Publish) and select 'edit' beside your domain name











Put a check in 'redirect yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com' (where yourdomain.com = your own domain name) and click 'Save'



Now you've completed the setup at Blogspot.



From now on, anyone going to your domain name will immediately be directed to the blog, and your own domain will appear at the top

Change Domain blogspot to Dot Tk Domain

Are you publishing your blog with Blogger.com? Are you feeling that your long domain name like your-blogname.blogspot.com, giving you bad reputation at many points of view? If your answer is yes! Then you came to right place and read out my post.

Why should I change to custom domain?

Search engines except Google, rest of all will never result your blogspot well at their listing. Social networking sites don’t like your blogspot.com tag when compared with top level domain. They don’t love to back link you. Moreover, the blogspot.com domains are blocked by some Internet service providers including China. You can also get custom e-mail like admin@your-domain.com with Google Apps. So this time, I am posting step by step guide to set up a custom domain using Dot.tk.

Guide to set up a Dot Tk custom domain using free DNS service:

Registering Dot Tk Domain:

Step-I:

1. Go to Dot.tk website.


2. Enter your preferred Dot Tk domain name and click Go. If entered domain is available, you will be promoted for further steps.






3. Now it shows availability of your domain.  For free domain you need to produce minimum of 25 hits per 90 days. Free domain has same services as paid domain. Select your choice and move on to next step.






4. Enter your blogspot URL and set registration length as 12 months. Now sign up with Dot Tk. Here you have to verify your Dot Tk account by email or you can also use social Networking accounts like facebook, yahoo, flicker etc.

Dot Tk settings in Blogger:

Step-II:

1. Log on to your blogger account.






2. Go to Settings and find Publishing option in your dashboard. Now click on Add a Custom Domain. You will be prompted to buy a domain for your blog.






3. Simply click on Switch to advanced settings. Then enter your Dot Tk domain with www in the place of www.filmyhub.tk (as shown in the picture). Now you have to verify domain ownership by adding two CNAME records. For this, click on Settings instructions. You will be landed to a page that having dynamically generated CNAME valus with detailed set up instructions.

DNS Configurations in Dot TK:

Step-III:

1. Now log on to your Dot Tk account and click on Domain Panel. It gives the list of your Dot Tk Domains. Now, click on Modify option to configure DNS Settings for your domain.






2. Here, you will get a pop up window of Domain settings. Select Dot TK DNS Service and configure your DNS settings like above shown screenshot according to your domain name. You will find dynamically generated CNAME values in below image.
   
   






3. For the first CNAME, enter Host Name as "www" and IP address as "ghs.google.com". It is fixed for any blog. Second CNAME record needs dynamically generated values. It means Host name with dynamically generated name (which is highlighted in blue) and IP Address with dynamically generated value like "gv-xxxxx.domainverify.googlehosted.com" (which is highlighted in pink). These fields are different for different blogs. Do not forget  to select record type as CNAME record.


4. To make your naked domain available, you have to add A record with following details. select record type as A record, then fill Host Name field with your dot tk domain without www (example: filmyhub.tk ) and IP address as 216.239.32.21
   
   


5. Before you move onto next step, wait about 30 min or an hour for your DNS settings to activate.

Saving Custom Domain settings in Blogger:

Step-IV:

1. Again go to advacned settings that configured in second step under publishing and save them. If you get any error, come back after some time and save settings.






2. Once you are done with saving, under publishing edit your custom domain and set redirection option by putting tick mark as shown in picture.


3. If you have any trouble in following any step, put a comment that helps me to catch you back.