How to remove .blogspot.com from the blog address

Hi Friends,

I have recently done this so thought of sharing this with you all.

This is very very simple and can be done with in a day. I will explain step by step

1. Lets say you have have a blog names xyz.blogspot.com and you want it to be http://www.xyz.com
2. First thing to do is to register a domain http://www.xyz.com with any webhosting company. There are thousands available online.
3. Very important thing. Register the domain with the provider who gives the domain forwarding facility free. There are many of them who are doing this.
4. Once the domain is registerd just login in your control panel (this will be provided by the company through whom you have registerd the domain).
5. Go to domain forwarding settings and put your blog address xyz.blogspot.com there.
6. Activate URL Masking. (this is very important)
7. Now what happens is when someone puts http://www.xyz.com in browser the domain forwading settings will forward the requestion xyz.blogspot.com
8. Now URL Masking comes in the picture as when user reaches to your blog xyz.blogspot.com he wont see this address in the browser. instead he will see http://www.xyz.com bcoz of the url masking feature.
9. one live example is my blog boozegyaan.blogspot.com for which i have registerd the domain http://www.boozegyaan.com
10. when someone types http://www.boozegyaan.com he reaches to my blog boozegyaan.blogspot.com but he see http://www.boozegyaan.com in the address bar.

Hope this will help

Thanks!

I use Namecheap to register my domains...
Normally, for me, it don't take more than couple of mins for the changes to appear . But, for some registers like godaddy.. it takes up to a day

I like to use cname (ghs.google.com), at addressbar will show our domain, and if our mouse hover to post title will show our domain too. I have blog at blogspot too at http://blog.abu-farhan.com and http://www.abufarhan.co.cc both I used cname.

i used cname too ghs.google.com

hre is my blogspot blog

  Code:

[url]http:/www.widgetBlogger.co.cc[/url]

vorganize,

Good post!

I agree, If your going to take the time to change your address to something without the .blogspot , might as well spend less than $10 a year like Kranthi & do it right.

Then you'll have a real .com

thanks ..

I much prefer cname too, as it is the process described by blogger.

The solution vorganize gives is nice but I think it also has major drawbacks. For example, if I were to go to Blogertricks.com and click on one of his post entries, it will take me to a unique url of "http://www.bloggertricks.com/2009/07/how-to-host-your-template-images-in.html" - If I were to go on vorganize's site and clicked on one of his posts, it would take me to the same url as his homepage of "http://www.boozegyaan.com" - as you can see, it would be difficult posting links to your posts with out needing to rely on your original blogspot urls....so how does one mask every post entry to a unique url like how bloggertricks.com has it?

Hi,

Nice and good info. Thank you very much.

The solution vorganize gives is nice but I think it also has major drawbacks. For example, if I were to go to Blogertricks.com and click on one of his post entries, it will take me to a unique url of "http://www.bloggertricks.com/2009/07/how-to-host-your-template-images-in.html" - If I were to go on vorganize's site and clicked on one of his posts, it would take me to the same url as his homepage of "http://www.boozegyaan.com" - as you can see, it would be difficult posting links to your posts with out needing to rely on your original blogspot urls....so how does one mask every post entry to a unique url like how bloggertricks.com has it?

Actually, I found the solution. I used Namecheap as a few have suggested - Here's a step by step process for folks who might be interested.
http://www.techfuzon.com/2009/05/setup- ... cheap.html

If you used Godaddy or other sites, then this article is for you.

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/b ... swer=55373