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Setting Up Namecheap's Domain on Blogger Blogspot

Setting Up Namecheap's Domain on Blogger Blogspot
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Bought a domain name from Namecheap and want to use it on our Google's Blogger/Blogspot? Easy peasy, let's do it!

Nerdizen.xyz — Namecheap is one of most popular domain registrar in the world. I think if Namecheap is the right place especially if this is our first time buying a domain name, because they have great customer service too.

What I liked from Namecheap is how they keep the prices transparent, and we also get forever free Privacy Guard, something that usually an additional paid add-on!

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I'm personally had using Namecheap for years, of course for my websites hosted on Blogger/Blogspot too.

So on this post, we'll share how to set the domain name we bought from Namecheap to our Google's Blogger/Blogspot website/blog.

Steps to park domain name from Namecheap to Google's Blogger/Blogspot

  1. Go to our Blogger/Blogspot dashboard, then click the "Settings" menu on the sidebar.
  2. Scroll down to the "Publishing" section, then click on the "Custom domain".
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  3. Enter our custom domain. Not that Blogger/Blogspot does not allow root domain, so we must use www at least, e.g.: www.example.com, then click "Save".
  4. It should show error message along with the CNAME configuration we must set on our domain's Namecheap DNS settings (the following below is just an example):
    a.) Name: www (or it could be blog, for example if we chose blog.example.com), Destination: ghs.google.com.
    b.) Name: hqfdlz7tgovl, Destination: gv-krpkyub3emdmrk.dv.googlehosted.com).
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  5. Open the Namecheap dashboard, and click "Manage" on our domain.
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  6. Click "Advanced DNS" tab.
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  7. Click "ADD NEW RECORD" button two times, so it will pops out two new rows of DNS setting inputs.
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  8. On the "Type" column selection, select both to "CNAME Record".
  9. Fill respective "Host" and "Value" input with the configuration we got earlier. Example for me, it will be just like on step no. 4, "Name" to "Host", and "Destination" to "Value":
    a.) First row: "Host" = www, "Value" = ghs.google.com.
    b.) Second row: "Host" = hqfdlz7tgovl, "Value" = gv-krpkyub3emdmrk.dv.googlehosted.com.
  10. Click "SAVE ALL CHANGES" button.
    On the "TTL" selections, left it to "Automatic".
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  11. Back to our Blogger's custom domain window, try to click "SAVE" now, and our custom domain should be succesfully parked as our blog's new address now. Note that it may take up to 24 hours until the DNS changes starts propagated, so keep checking back each 30 minutes and try again.

(Optional) Redirecting root/naked custom domain to our blog

This optional step will make sure if we visit the root/naked version of our custom domain, it will be redirected to our blog's main address parked on the Blogger/Blogspot, for example on my blog if we try to access nerdizen.xyz, it will be redirected to www.nerdizen.xyz.

This is great because www.nerdizen.xyz is my main blog, we don't want visitors think they are visiting a wrong address. And, it's also good for SEO to canonicalize our main address. Okay, so for this, we will add additional configurations on the Namecheap's DNS settings of our domain.

Steps:

  1. Back to our Namecheap domain's "Advanced DNS" tab (step 5 above).
  2. If we found another record with "A Record" type, delete it (click on the trash icon on the right).
  3. Click "ADD NEW RECORD" four times to add new rows of new DNS settings for our domain.
  4. On the "Type" column selections, left it to "A Record" on all of them.
  5. On the "Host" column selections, fill it with @ on all of them.
  6. Then on the "Value" column input, we will fill it with the Google's IPs from the guide page at the Google support page, respectively are:
    - 216.239.32.21
    - 216.239.34.21
    - 216.239.36.21
    - 216.239.38.21
  7. On the "TTL" column selection, left it to "Automatic".
  8. Click "SAVE ALL CHANGES".
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  9. Now on the Blogger "Redirect domain" setting, activate the switch.
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Enabling Blogger/Blogspot secure connection (HTTPS)

Enabling our website/blog to use secure connection or HTTPS is the standard today. So, it's recommended to use the free HTTPS feature provided by the Blogger. A free SSL (HTTPS certificate) from Google with one click process. 😉

Steps:

  1. Go to our Blogger's Settings dashboard, and scroll down to "HTTPS" section.
  2. On the "HTTPS availability", activate the switch. After this, the HTTPS for our custom domain will be processed, it may take hours before our custom domain can be accessed with https://, so keep checking it regularly every 30 minutes.
  3. After the "Status" is changed to "Available", try to access our custom domain with the https://.
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  4. If we click the icon usually placed on the left of our browser's address bar, we can check the HTTPS's certificate info, and it should be from Google Trust Services.
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  5. (Recommended) Activate the switch of "HTTP redirect", so that visitors who accessing our blog without HTTPS (http://) will be redirected to HTTPS so they always using a secure connection. This is also good for SEO to canonicalize our domain address.

Setup Domain from Namecheap to Blogger/Blogspot video on YouTube

That's all of our post on how to set domain name we bought from Namecheap to Google's Blogger/Blogspot, along with its additional settings. It's purely based on my experience when we were setting the domain name of this site, www.nerdizen.xyz.


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