How to Add a Custom Domain through Bigrock

Are you still running your blog on BlogSpot ? Welcome to new bloggers and my readers today I am going to show you “ How to add a Custom Domain with Big rock ”. I am writing this post because I struggled a lot to setup a custom domain but my readers/new bloggers should not struggle so. Ok let’s get started.

Moving your BlogSpot to TLD’s

• First of all should buy a Domain Through Big rock.
• Login to your Big rock account.
• Click on Domains and List of all Orders. A list of domains will be displayed like the image given below.
• Click on the Domain Name which you want to configure as a Top-Level Domain for your BlogSpot.( as I highlighted in red colour).

• Then Click on DNS Management.(as highlighted image given below).

• After Clicking DNS Management. Click on Manage DNS.
• After Clicking Manage DNS a new window opens. Then Click on Add A Record (as highlighted in the image below).

• Start filling the A Record. Leave the Host Name as Blank and the add the IPv4 Address as Following :
  • 216.239.32.21

• Follow the same procedure and Add 3 more A records with the following Destination IPv4 Address.
  • 216.239.34.21
  • 216.239.36.21
  • 216.239.38.21

• After adding all A Records it should look like the below image.

Then Click on CName Records.(as highlighted in the image below).

You have to write 2 CName Records.

• First one as the image given below. Type the Host Name as ‘www’ and value as ‘ghs.google.com’.

For second one

• Login to your Blogger Dashboard.
• Under Settings –> Basic –> Publishing –> Add a custom domain –> Switch to Advanced Settings –> Settings Instructions. Then a new window open in your like the image below.
• Click on Top-Level domain(www.example.com). Then enter the values shown in the highlighted image as appears on your blogger.

Hurray you have done all the settings required. Now leave the Default Settings for an hour or so.
After one hour or so follow these steps:

• Login to your Blogger Dashboard. Under Settings –> Basic –> Publishing –> +Add a custom domain –> Switch to Advanced Settings.
• Enter the Domain Name. then tick the mark for “Redirect yourdomainname.com to www.yourdomainname.com”.

That’s it you have successfully switched to a custom domain.
Comment here below if you have any trouble switching your domain name.