CNAME Records: How to Create For Blogger Custom Domain Name

This is what you have to do when switching from FTP publishing on a hosted web server to Custom Domain Name on Blogger or Google Apps.

CNAMES refer to Canonical name record. A CNAME is an alias of one name to another. For example below, the subdomain name "news" is going to point to ghs.google.com for Custom Domain Name on Blogger. Follow the procedure below to your website hosting provider.

Write to your website hosting provider, if you do not have access to a Web Host Manager - WHM for setting up DNS yourself, and ask them to do this for you. This is a subdomain name called news. You will need to instruct your provider on what your subdomain name is currently, or what you intend for the subdomain name to be if starting a new Custom Domain Name (subdomain) blog on Blogger, or a new Custom Domain Name (subdomain) for Google Apps.

Email note to website hosting provider:

Please add a cName record for news.ourwebsiteurl.org pointing to ghs.google.com for blog hosting at a Google Blogger account. We are switching the subdomain "news" only to Google Hosting for the Blogger account for the new XML style templates and faster publishing than the ftp publishing from the current
server.

Do we need to delete the subdomain name news.ourwebsiteurl.org from our cPanel area for it to work, or can we just wait for the cName record to migrate and then that should show up at Blogger, since we have already changed the publishing to the Custom Domain Name publishing option in the Google Blogger account using the subdomain name "news"?

By-the-way, we tried adding a cName record at Yahoo Small Business hosting for ourwebsiteurl.org and realized that the cName record does not go through that way, because hosting is at Our Hosting Provider's name servers, which we think that means all the DNS settings are now switched through our hosting provider. Is this a correct assumption?

The answer was as follows:

The DNS CNAME record has been set.

DNS records are answered by the authoritative name servers. Any DNS record modifications need to be done at the authoritative name servers, which are the following: ns1.websitehosting1.net and ns2.websitehosting1.net.

Let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Follow up question:

Thank you.

Just one other question regarding the subdomain name that we were using via publishing by ftp. Do we need to delete the subdomain name "news" in our cPanel for the CNAME subdomain name "news" record to function properly? Or, does the CNAME record override the old subdomain name from the cPanel?

Response from the hosting provider:

As per your follow up, the subdomain will resolve to the entry submit for the CNAME.

Please allow upwards of 2 hrs. for changes to fully propagate due to dns caching.

Keep us informed in the event you have any issues, questions, or concerns as we are glad to be of assistance.

Thank you,

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My ghs.google.com CNAME thoughts:

I forgot where the final CNAME record changes must be made for the custom domain name to work. CNAME record changes must occur at the authoritative name servers, which are controlled by the new name servers at the web hosting provider. Adding a CNAME record at the domain name registrar is not going to work because the name servers are pointing to a different location. Get your business found online. Need help with your business? Contact us for the Internet solution now.

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posted by Jim Warholic @ 7:57 PM www.pwebs.net