Blogger Lets You Use Your Own Domain
Blogger added a new feature: Bring your own domain. All you have to do is buy a domain, anywhere, at any price you can find, set up your Blogger account and point your DNS at Google’s server at ghs.google.com, and viola*! Now your Blogger blog appears at its own domain name, and all you had to do was pay less than ten bucks a year for the domain. You don’t need hosting, because Blogger handles all the traffic, you just bring the domain.
I’m really pleased with what the Blogger team has done. They’ve turned around a product that seemed like it was dead-ending, reviving the server architecture, inspiring confidence, and adding features that users have begged for for years. I didn’t think they had it in them, and users of Blogger should be feeling a whole lot better with every announcement. If Google adds a geek-friendly template system that would allow for plugins to massively hack the system, Blogger could very well be near perfect.
(via Philipp)
* - old joke, viola vs. voilà. I never tire of it.
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I moved my blog to the hosted one. The blog is down a lot of times in the last couple of days after the move. Other blogspot blogs are up. I would recommend users to wait a bit, before all the issues are ironed out by google.
Comment by Venkatesh | January 8, 2007
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voilà is misspelled
Comment by Lebanese Expatriate | January 9, 2007
Lebanese: Technically, you’re right! I’m adding the little thing now (what are those called?).
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | January 9, 2007
[…] Blogger added a new feature: Bring your own domain. All you have to do is buy a domain, anywhere, at any price you can find, set up your Blogger account and point your DNS at Google’s server at ghs.google.com, and viola*! Now your Blogger blog appears at its own domain name, and all you had to do was pay less than ten bucks a year for the domain. You don’t need hosting, because Blogger handles all the traffic, you just bring the domain. [InsideGoogle] […]
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If you’ve got a domain but also host files on it, does changing the CNAME affect hose hosted files in any way?
Can people still get to them?
Comment by steve garfield | January 11, 2007
As far as I can tell, you need to change the DNS server for it to work, although I’m not sure about the CNAME. In effect, Google becomes your new server, so you can’t really host anything on it, just your blog. If you could set up a subdomain or subdirectory, and give it the DNS of Google’s servers, that might work, but you’d have to test it out.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | January 11, 2007
Nathan,
That’s exactly the approach we took for our new blog, SaipanBlog.com, we got a domain name and it points to the Google blogger subdomain. I am a total noob at this.
So far, so good, but I’ve also read that it’s possible to have a Blogger blog put on one’s own hosting service via FTP. I’m sort of tempted to mess with this, but we have a team blog and so we enjoy the ease of the Blogger web interface; it wouldn’t work if the contributors had to FTP their posts, they wouldn’t want to mess with that. If you know of anyone using Blogger on a non-Google host, please post the site, I’d like to look at it and maybe ask them some questions.
Comment by Ed Stephens Jr. | February 16, 2007
The thing is that if you buy a new domain, your pagerank will be 0…
thats the really bad thing
thanks, fuser
Comment by SC4M.COM | March 29, 2007
That is amazingly great. You can do a similiar thing with wordpress except without the hosting. I think blogger is trying to compete with wordpress to stay competitive. They sure have my loyalty!
Comment by Image Host | June 11, 2007
Hmm… but how about Google terms ?
If you ‘only’ redirect your domain, done via a server-redirect not frame (frame means - the blogger-domainname will be seen in the webbrowser adressfield with your blog in a subdirectory), sooner or later you’ll get a message from Google.
Or… has the mail i’ve got about such a thing on one domain been a fake ?
Best wishes,
Wolfgang
Comment by Wolfgang | July 20, 2007