Google’s domain registration service
Google Domains
is now available to everyone in the US.Google domains integrates nicely
with many Website-publishing platforms like Wix,Shopify,Sqaurespace and
Weebly. Google’s own platform (Blogger) wasn’t supported initially, but
Google has now rolled out support for Blogger. This would mean that
publishing your Blogger blog to a custom domain will be a lot more
easier.
Google Domains is now in public Beta and is available only to users
in the United States. The rest of the world might have to wait a little
longer to utilise this service. If you are eligible to use the new
Google Domains integration, you should see a “Buy Now” option in
Blogger’s publishing settings.
When you login to the Blogger Dashboard, and navigate to the
Settings menu, you should see the option under the Publishing section
Once you click on the
Buy a domain option, you
should be able to quickly set your BlogSpot blog to use a custom domain
name which you buy. Custom domain names on Google Domains costs
somewhere near 12$ per year.
In case you haven’t yet created your blog, you can log onto Google
Domains, buy a domain name and use blogger as the publishing platform.
In case you need help setting up your blog with a Custom domain from
Google Domains, do let us know and we might do it for you :-). Google
Domains is not yet available anywhere outside the United States. This
doesn’t mean that you can’t use Custom Domains outside the US. There are
many third party Domain Registrars where you can register a domain name
of your choice. We have written couple of tutorials on how to set it up
for Name.com and Go Daddy. Both are trusted and widely used domain
registrars. Most of my domains were registered on Name.com and a couple
of them on GoDaddy. In case you need some details on how to setup your
custom URL with these domain providers, then checkout our tutorials
listed below. If you would like to use an alternate domain provider and
would want us to write a tutorial, do let us know and we might be able
to help you out.
