From StartLogic to Custom Domain via Zone Edit
The blog you are looking at is maintained at Google Blogger and used to be published to my netzwerg.ch domain via FTP. Google recently announced the discontinuation of FTP publishing, and the only way to keep my domain name (read: my readers, page ranks, link validity, etc) was to switch to their "Custom Domain" program. A step-by-step guide explained how to set up the necessary DNS changes, but StartLogic, my ISP, doesn't support the configuration of any of them.
Long story short: I had to switch to a different DNS host — here's how to migrate your custom domain via Zone Edit, a free DNS provider:
Zone Edit Part
- Sign up and add a new Zone for your domain name, in my case www.netzwerg.ch
- Edit the "Aliases (CNAME)" section of your zone: www.netzwerg.ch is another name for ghs.google.com
- Edit the "IP addresses (A)" section of your zone: Add four aliases for your naked domain ("netzwerg.ch" without the "www" — confirm the not recommended "Yes" button for each of them)
The summary ("View") should now look like this:
Registrar Part
Since your domain is now routed via Zone Edit, you need to update the nameserver configuration at your registrar: the entries that previously pointed to your ISP (in my case ns1.startlogic.com and ns2.startlogic.com) now need to point to ns2.zoneedit.com and ns17.zoneedit.com. Note that these changes my need a while to take effect.
Blogger Part
The last step is to switch your blog from FTP publishing to Custom Domain. You need to make the following changes in your Blogger Dashboard:
Things should be settled now — fingers crossed!
