Exchanging One Custom Domain For Another

Custom domains, which give us the ability to publish a blog, hosted on a Google server (and using a Layouts template), to a non-BlogSpot URL, are great.

If we don't plan what we're doing, though, sometimes we wind up with a URL that we later decide, just won't suit our long term needs.

Like used underwear, you can't return a used custom domain name. You buy it, you're stuck with it.

Buy another domain, and move on.

1. Publish the blog back to its original BlogSpot URL.
2. If you have properly setup DNS addresses for your new domain, use "Advanced Settings", and setup the new domain inside Google. If not, buy a new domain, using the "Buy A Domain" wizard.
3. If you run into the old "Another blog ..." error, recycle the domain settings using Google Apps.
4. Done.

Easy enough, if you think about what you're doing.

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