How To Point Your Domain Name To A Blog

 Do you know how you point domain name to your blog???
this is the answer your question

This post has been updated and is current as of
9/14/08. It receives a steady stream of search
engine hits so I must be helping someone
somewhere! I have left the comments in place,
but this post may have taken care of some of
the issues raised. After locating The Real Blogger Status blog through Blogger help, I finally got this to work. No
thanks to the half dozen techs at Network
Solutions who came up with nothing better than an
additional cost "address forwarding" upgrade to my
account to lazily accomplish what I did for free
(although at my going rate of $75/hr, it wasn't really "free" free.) I'm going to email them the
instructions and suggest they send me a check for
$500 for all the research I did because their techs
in India, while polite, provide sub par support. Here's a "How To" that should save folks a lot of
time and aggravation. I created a new blog, ECCO, and used a standard
blogger address of "http://eccopac.blogspot.com".
The "pac" stands for Political Action Committee. The ultimate goal was to ditch my old ISP and FTP
site and convert the whole thing over to the simple
format of the blog. Much easier to update and it's
a good way to stretch a small budget. The yearly
cost of ~$200 for hosting charges will be
eliminated and we always used a free Yahoo email address so email accounts weren't an issue. I want users who type in the original
"www.eccopac.org" address to go directly to the
new blog site rather than the old FTP site. Sounds
easy, you say? I thought I'd just need to switch
around some pointers and be done with it. Don't
point there anymore, point here instead. Uh, not so much. Google servers, where Blogger's free
blogs reside, are load balanced to accomodate
their huge traffic volume and IP addresses are
dynamically assigned. In other words, your blog
doesn't have a set IP address so you can't just input
a xx.xxx.xxx.xx number for the pointer as you normally would. The Blogger help instructions kept talking about
creating a "CNAME" but didn't really elaborate. It
defined what a CNAME was but not how to create
one. The help page linked to many company that
sell names, but not Network Solutions, which is
where my domain name was purchased many years ago. I think they are still one of the most popular.
But based on my experience with their support
department, not for long. The following is what I did. I think my 2.5 years of
work experience answering phones in the hell
known as Tech Support has helped me explain
things concisely and methodically. After you talk
to thousands of people, you learn the fastest way
to get them to do what you need them to do so they get their ass off your phone! I recommend that if you aren't sure about your
particular circumstances after reading these
instructions, that you contact the appropriate Tech
Support department. Also, as I did, print out the
pages as you go so you have a record of your
original settings in case you need to put things back as they were! THIS IS FOR MY SPECIFIC CASE. I already owned
the domain name through Network Solutions and
my blog is through Blogger. If you don't own a
domain name, you'll have to get one, and you can
choose any number of providers for that. However,
the instructions I list below won't work exactly but may give you some guidance. First, you need to tell your domain name where to
find your new blog: Network Solutions Portion • Go to www.networksolutions.com and log in.
• Go to Manage Account | "Account Manager
Home".
• Go to Domains | "Manage Domain Names".
• Click on the domain name you want to redirect.
• Click on the "Designated DNS" button. • Click on "Apply Changes".
• Click on "Manage Advanced DNS Records".
• Click on "Add/Edit" under "IP Address (A
Records)"
• Delete the entry under "Numeric IP" on the line
starting with "www". • Leave other entries as they are.
• Click on "Continue".
• Click "Add/Edit" under "Host Aliases (CNAME
Records)".
• On the first line, enter "www" under "Alias"
• Leave "Select" as is in the pull down menu under the "Refers to Host Name".
• Click the button to the left of the first box under
"Other Host" and type "ghs.google.com" in the box.
• Click "Continue" at the bottom of the screen.
• The next screen should show you that a CNAME
alias "www.yourdomainname.yourextension" has been created.
• Click "Save Changes" and you're back to the
"Domains" screen.
• Log out. You'll have to wait a couple of hours for the
process to propagate throughout the Internet. This
process is where Internet servers tell each other
there's been a change so they all know where to
route future requests for your domain name. Next, you have to tell Blogger that you're using a
custom address rather than the standard Blogger
address: Blogger Portion • Log in to your Blogger account.
• Go to your Dashboard.
• Click on "Settings" for the blog you want to set
up the redirection.
• Click on the "Publishing" tab.
• Click on "Custom Domain". • In the first open box, next to "Domain Name",
enter your desired address...for example,
"www.xyz.com". In some cases, I was prompted
with the ability to purchase a domain name here.
If you already have your name, click "Switch To
Advanced Settings." • Type in the domain name that will point to the
blog in the "Your Domain" box.
• Click on "Save Settings". You're done! This took me several hours over many days of
looking through help files, online Q & As, and
calling customer service. I'm not quite sure why
such an easy process was made so difficult. I'm
essentially a techie and knew what I had to do.
Pretty easy when you see it mapped out in logical

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