Sunday, March 9, 2008

Google Domain Forwarding

Google Domain Forwarding - Learn More | Google Groups:

"You will run into an issue with Forwarding since you purchased your
domain name from Google. Your domain host will be either eNom or
GoDaddy. Your login to their domain control page will be through the
Advanced DNS Settings link on the Domain Names tab. To make this work,
you will need to remove the 3 A records that point to Google servers.
These will typically have the following IP addresses in the record:
64.233.179.121, 66.249.81.121, and 72.14.207.121. For GoDaddy only,
add this A record:@ pointing to 64.202.189.170 with a 1 hour TTL.
(Record information supplied by GoDaddy for this issue).

To complete the Forward:

eNom: Add a URL Redirect record with @ pointing to http://www.mydomain.com

goDaddy: Back out of the DNS records and you will see a link which
says Forwarding. Click the link and create to Forward to http://www.mydomain.com.
Then choose either 301 or 302. I generally choose the temporary
choice.

Note: Yes, removing the three A records may affect load balancing,
i.e. speed of access, but I haven't noticed a problem and the
alternative is to not be able to Forward.

Larry - Power Poster."

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