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Domain mappingWhat is domain mapping?

Domain Mapping is the process of pointing a registered domain name to a Blogetery.com blog.

Domain mapping is more than domain forwarding or masking, because your URL and permalinks contain the address of your domain (example.com), and not your Blogetery sub-domain (example.blogetery.com).

Choose and Register Your Domain

If you do not have a domain registered already, the first thing you’ll need to do is to choose a domain name, like example.com and register it. You can register domain names from any of a number of different registrars, and you can use .com, .org, .net or any other valid addresses. Remember: you only need to get the domain name; you don’t have to pay extra for hosting service.

In order to use domain mapping, your registrar – the company where you register your domain name – must support “custom DNS services”.  This means that your registrar must give you control over the DNS records that describe your domain, and that you must have the ability to create and modify A, MX, and CNAME records.

Here are details for three popular registrars:

dotster
dotster calls its custom DNS services “DNS Management”.  DNS Management is available if you use dotster’s name servers for an additional yearly fee.  dotster offers instructions for setting up DNS Management services for your domain.
GoDaddy
GoDaddy’s “Total DNS Control” is included with domain registration and gives you control over custom DNS services for your domain.  Instructions on setting up Total DNS Control are available at GoDaddy’s site.
Network Solutions
Network Solutions calls its custom DNS services “Advanced DNS”.  Advanced DNS is available for an additional yearly fee.  Instructions on setting up Advanced DNS are available at here.


What do I configure at my registrar for the domain mapping?

The domain mapping for Blogetery is set with the CNAME in the records for your domain name at your registrar.  The CNAME will always be your main Blogetery URL: example.blogetery.com (or example.blogsrc.com, etc.). You need to create two CNAME records for your domain. One for non-www and one for www address (example.com, www.examples.com). If your registar do not allow to create CNAME record for main domain you can create A record pointing to your blog’s IP address (you can find IP address value at Tools > Domain Mapping page).

Note: You cannot map only the “www” subdomain since we remove the www from all the URLs at blogetery.com.

What do I do after making the change at my registrar?

Once you’ve updated your DNS settings, you’re ready to finalize the configuration by associating the domain with your Blogetery blog.

Go to ‘Tools > Domain Mapping’ page, enter your domain and press ‘Add new domain’ button.

While the process on Blogetery’s end takes about few minutes to complete, the process on your registrar’s end can take 24-48 hours.


Can I map a sub-domain such as blog.example.com?

Yes.  If you have a domain example.com, you can set up a sub-domain with your registrar (such as blog.example.com) and map that to your Blogetery blog. Create a CNAME record for it and  point to main Blogetery URL (example.blogetery.com).

This is also useful if you would like to host part of your domain at Blogetery and part at another location.


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