How to Use Google Blogger's Custom Domain

I have noticed many people have problems (myself included) with Blogger's Custom Domain when they tried to move from blogspot.com to their own domain. Usually, it happened to the domain where www.mathpoints.com points to the correct site but mathpoints.com (without the www) cannot be found. I would like to share my experience on how I get it to work.

Special thanks to MG from parislemon.com, GoDaddy Support and Google Blogger Help Group.

I followed the instructions on Blogger's Help:

1. Log in to your account at www.godaddy.com.

2. Open the Domains tab and select My Domain Names. You'll be directed to the Manage Domains page.

3. Click the domain that you'd like to use with your blog.

4. Click the Total DNS Control And MX Records in the box entitled Total DNS Control.

5. Click Add New CNAME Record. If you've already created a CNAME record for your blog's address, click Edit next to the existing CNAME record.

6. For the Name, enter only the subdomain of the address you want to use for your blog. For example, if you picked www.mydomain.com as your address, enter www here.

7. Enter ghs.google.com as the Host Name.

8. Click Continue, and then click Add. If you're editing an existing CNAME record, click Continue and Update.

Then I followed the email instructions from GoDaddy's Support:

9. Park your domain and don't use any other free hosting:

• From within your GoDaddy account, select 'Manage Domains' from the 'Domain Names' menu.
• Check the box next to the domain(s) you wish to modify.
• Click the 'Set Name Servers' button above the list of domains.
• Select the 'Default Parked Name Servers' option.

10. Set Up Forwarding:

• Check the box next to the domain(s) you wish to modify.
• Click the 'Forward Domains' button above your list of domains.
• Enter the full URL that you would like your domain to forward to. (http://www.mydomain.com)