How I forwarded my domain to my blog

by Nikhil

Welcome back!

Voila!!!

Finally I manage to do it. After hours of effort,mails,and asking people on how to forward by domain to my blog,I find the solution and it works!!!

I have mailed Rediff (who sold me nikhil.co.in) atleast 50 times(yes,50 times) they could not help.
Whatever I do as they suggested, the subdomain blog.nikhil.co.in would go to Google.com
I guessed that is because my blogspot blog does not have a static IP , and everytime I resolve my blogspot blog URL to an IP and try that IP , it leads to Google. So that was the problem.
Rediff kept telling, everything fine from their side. Check with blogger.

Had mailed blogger a couple of times, and they said, it may not work in this specific case blah blah!!!
Please, how can such a simple thing not have an ans.
Poor me, created a tripod page, kept a domain forward there to my blog with the hope that my tripod page would have a static IP! nay, it did not work!! Phew!!!! Maddening effort I felt at so many points of time…

Then I thought its high time, I go through Google Groups and yes!! the solution was there! I was not the only one, so many folks faced the exact same problem. I mailed Chuck and he replied.

One thing to note, it takes almost 24 hours for the whole thing to take into effect.

The steps are given below

1)Go to your domain control panel
(In my login to go to Rediff Domains and Control panel of nikhil.co.in)
2)Click on CNAME
3)Enter Alias as whatever you would like to have before your domain name to be your new blogger address. In my case Alias, is blog, so that blog.nikhil.co.in would lead to http:///nikmuse.blogspot.com
4)Next to the Alias field, there would be a field Host Server. Enter ghs.google.com there.
If you do not have a . (dot) after you save the same, edit the Host Server and re enter as ghs.google.com.
5)Now,this is done. Next step is changing settings in blogger.
6)On your blogger Settings tab, click on Publishing.
7)Click on Advanced Settings and enter blog.nikhil.co.in and save the settings
8)You are done!!!

Wait for a day for the whole thing to take into effect. Why ghs.google.com and NOT nikmuse.blogspot.com in this case, is that your question? Check this page for the answer

Hope I am of some use to junta who face the same problem.

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24 comments

1 Parul { 09.30.07 at 4:28 pm }: Now that you’ve told your hot story to the world, will you promise not to mention it on the phone?
2 Abhijith { 09.30.07 at 6:52 pm }: Congrats! That’s an awesome piece of info, though not for poor ppl like me who can’t afford a domain name in their own name! Still might help the odd ambani online!
3 GWBE { 10.02.07 at 10:26 am }: Congrats!

You survived the conspiracy to keep people away from technology!
4 Nikhil Narayanan { 10.02.07 at 10:58 am }: @GWBE
LOL!!! well said
5 vinni { 10.10.07 at 7:40 pm }: i might actually do this some time…thanks for the info. but there is a long way to go. want some more viewers. i am averaging some 50 a day. must go up more for a domian.
cheers!
6 nj { 12.11.07 at 4:19 am }: Hi,

CAn you tell me how to redirect my main domain to my geocities webpage?

I bought my domain using rediff business solutions.

I followed your steps and forwarded my blog to blog.mynewdomain.com

Initially I was trying to forward my main domain to my blog but was unable to do so. What was happenning was that I was gettingan error on my rediff control panel which said that A record already existed for @/www

But I could not see the @/www alias! Why is this happening?

I suspect this may have to do with the free parking that rediff provides.

Please help me to redirect/forward my main domain to another site like my blog or my geocities webpage.
7 Nikhil Narayanan { 12.12.07 at 10:27 am }: @NJ
I have also tried in vain !

No point mailing rediff, trust me!!!

fwding to geocities is like fwding to blogger, tough I mean…coz.. there is no static IP for your geocities page!

There must be solution, havent explored….
Did you try google groups, searching for an ans for ur question…try that.

Regards
8 nj { 12.12.07 at 1:23 pm }: My point is why can’t I edit/delete my A records so that I can point my primary domain to whatever site I wish to point it to?

Does rediff do it to make people subsribe to its pathetic hosting solutions?

So, are you saying that your primary domain points to construction site?

if that is true it sucks.
9 Nikhil Narayanan { 12.12.07 at 3:08 pm }: Hey NJ
See from what I have figured out….
To edit A names you should have a static IP to which http://www.domain.com can be fwded…
but….neither geocities nor a blogger blog will give u a static IP….
so how do u proceed?
Regards
Nikhil
10 nj { 12.13.07 at 5:41 am }: how about deleting A records through registrar & then adding www cname alias pointing to HHS.google.com?
11 Nikhil Narayanan { 12.13.07 at 8:43 am }: @NJ
that shud be possible

dunno if they gonna agree but
12 nj { 12.13.07 at 9:13 am }: kindly check which of these following links are working. The 1st link should work and the next 2 links should work in a few hours time.

http://www.nirjharjain.com
nirjharjain.com
blog.nirjharjain.com
13 Keshri Nandan { 01.03.08 at 11:18 am }: Hi Nikhil,
I’m also facin same problem which u hv describd here. I hv followed these 8 steps, but whn I try too open my subdomain “blog.knn.co.in” it goes to google.com.

I hv bought domain from rediff & I’m using blogspot.
14 Nikhil Narayanan { 01.04.08 at 5:53 am }: @Keshri
If you follow the steps mentioned, should work in 1-2 days time.
If it doesnt, lemme know.
Regards
Nikhil
15 Keshri Nandan { 01.04.08 at 7:06 am }: Thanks Nikhil,
It seems things r startd workin…
I can acces my blog through my domain here in India, but still my frnds at US r gettin google.com page while trying my domain, I think it will take some time while all the DNS server get updated.

neway’s thanks for ur help…..!!
16 jamesc { 01.04.09 at 12:04 pm }: fine..you forward a subdomain to your blogspot blog..but can you forward a primary or secondary domain to your blog?
17 joseph { 01.08.09 at 6:19 pm }: i would like to know how to forward mysite.in to blogger…i can forward http://www.mysite.in but cannot forward mysite.in as it shows the under contruction page by rediff?
18 Nikhil { 01.08.09 at 6:48 pm }: @Keshri
Good.Np
@jamesc @joseph
When I moved from http://nikmuse.blogspot.com to http://blog.nikhil.co.in (on Blogger) , I could not have my blog at http://www.nikhil.co.in or http://nikhil.co.in
I had no choice but to buy hosting space for a simple redirect.
I “guess” now such redirects are supported.
Not sure.Hope this helps.Else let me know, will try out myself.
19 Nikhil { 01.08.09 at 6:49 pm }: @jamesc @joseph
Forgot to mention.I did buy hosting space later, but that was for WP install.
20 Sanjay Verma { 01.11.09 at 7:06 pm }: Well, Nikhil. The problem you fased is mainly because of:

1. Rediff’s rudimentary DNS Management features in its Domain Control Panel
2. Poor (and well known) after sales technical support from Rediff Hosting

Sanjay Verma
http://www.hosting.sanver.com
Mumbai, India
21 Ankit { 01.15.09 at 5:55 pm }: Hey,
I have brought a domain cheekubaba.com
and a blog at wordpress, blogger, blog.co.in
I there any way that when somebody types cheekubaba.com
he is redirected to one of these blogs
(I don’t want to buy hosting for now)
22 Ankit { 01.15.09 at 5:58 pm }: i have registered domain from ewebguru.com
and it has only one option related to this
“create nameserver”
23 Bon { 10.13.09 at 2:17 am }: Hey bro,

Thanks for your tips. It worked out fine for me. Thanks once again.

God bless!
24 techshivam { 07.07.10 at 2:44 pm }: dude u r god for me searching for this answer for so long , got pist wd the rediff guys i dont why why r they supporting customer when the self nt know the answers bloody newbeeiss, i waste my hours days months….. abb to year hone ko aa gya hai….u r awesme thx for sharing this info really like u to add as a friend send u request some timee thx a ton though i not try this page info but thx in advanced and i hope this info works