Friday 8 February 2013

How to add Bigrock Domain to your Blogger Blog

Posted by Tee Jay on Friday 8 February 2013

Bigrock is one of the major domain registrars in India. Anyone can easily buy a domain for his/her blog or website from Bigrock because of the wide range of payment options offered by them. Bigrock also provides good support for their customers, which is also one of the main reasons behind the popularity of Bigrock.

A custom domain is necessary to take your blog to the next level. If you are still using the blogspot/wordpress or any other sub-domain then I will highly recommend you to buy a custom domain for your blog. You can buy a custom domain for your blog in almost $10 around 500 INR or even cheaper than this. If you want to buy a domain from Bigrock then You can also get the 10% discount on domain purchases from Bigrock. All you need is to buy domain from this link “buy domain” and after that you need to use coupon code “BRSES” before checking out to get 10% discount on domain purchase.

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Now, if you have purchased a domain from Bigrock and want to add your bigrock domain to your blogger blog then this article will help you to add Bigrock domain to your blogger blog easily. Now let’s proceed with the step by step guide to add bigrock domain to your blogger blog.

Step 1. Buy a domain from Bigrock, If you still havn't bought it.

Step 2. Log in to your Bigrock account panel.
bigrock domain blogger blog

Step 3.  Now, you need to click on manage order > List of order and then click on the domain you want to add to your blogger blog.

Step 4. Now, Click on DNS management tab and then you need to click on the "Manage DNS option" tab ass shown in the below image.
Step 5. The 5th step is to click on "CNAME records" and then click on "Add CNAME record" tab as shown in the screenshot.

Step 6. Now, you need to add the below given details in the fields shown in the screenshot.

NAME : WWW
Value : ghs.google.com

Make sure you don't alter the values given in TTL field.

After filling all details, click on "Add Record".

Step 7. Once you are done with the CNAME, You need to add the A records. For adding A records, you need to add 4 destination IP4 values as shown in the screenshot.

216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
Now, you are done with the procedure of adding your bigrock custom domain to your blogger blog. The next thing is to redirect your blogspot sub-domain to your custom domain.

To redirect your sub-domain to your custom domain you need to follow the step given below:

a) Log in to your blogger dashboard.

b) Click on Settings > Basics and then you need to click on "Add a Custom Domain". After that click on "switch to advanced settings" and enter your domain which you want to add to your blogger blog. Now, see the screenshot given below.
That's it. Now, you own a blog with custom domain. If you faced any issue regarding this tutorial then feel free to ask it via comment. I'll help you to sort out the issue as soon as possible.

3 comments:

  1. I am getting a 404 error without the www and I have added the A records

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    1. It seems you missed the last step mentioned in the post. Follow the last 2 steps as given in the post.

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  2. Please help me about domain name from Tanzania justinfrank487@gmail.com

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