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This Quick-Tip is about an issue that some people have had with their "naked" custom domain not re-directing to the www-at-the-start version, and how to fix it using a feature in your Google Apps account. Since Blogger released their initial fix to the custom-domain mapping problem of mid-September 2012, some people have found that it's not possible to set up the custom domain so that my-domain.xxx works as well as www.my-domain.xxx does. There is an option for this in Blogger's Settings > Publishing area.  But last night, when I set up a "subdomain" style entry for news.my-domain.xxx and directed my latest-updates blog from my-domain.blogspot.com to news.my-domain.com, found that this didn't work. (Obviously I didn't use my-domain.com - but the principle applies.) However today I found an approach that does seem to fix this: 1   Log in to the Google Apps domain administration account (the same one you used to set up the 2nd CNAME record - if y...

This article is about how to use a domain (URL) that was purchased outside of Blogger / Google as the custom-domain for your blog.   Blogger and custom domains Until September 2012, the easiest way to give your Blogger blog a custom domain was to pick an URL that is currently available and purchase it through the Settings > Publishing  tab.   If that is s successful, all you needed to do was set up an administrator account for your domain . But sometimes the URL you want will not be available through Google / Blogger: Maybe it's owned by someone else Maybe you own it  already, because you purchased it through another domain registrar.   Maybe you don't have a credit-card so cannot purchase through  Google.   Maybe it's for a country that Blogger doesn't sell domains for (eg Ireland). Maybe it's now well after September 2012, and Blogger have not re-introduced this service - and don't look likely to do so. In these cases, you can't use Blogger...