How To Setup Your Custom Domain in Cloudflare DNS With Blogger (2023 Update)

How to set up a custom domain with a blogger?

1. log in to your blogger.com if you already have an account create new a account from this link.

Then on the left, select the menu and click settings.

2. click on the custom domain,

enter the URL of the domain you purchased from Cloudflare correctly,

for example, www.domain.com, (without HTTPS://) then click on save.

3. After you enter the URL then Click on save.

4. Once you save, you will be notified with the error CNAME. Why are you getting this error?

Due to the DNS setup with Cloudflare as the domain provider. Check here for more details

5. follow the instructions step by step,

Copy two CNAMEs one by one and paste them into Cloudflare DNS settings,

In DNS settings Type: CNAME, Name: www, Content: ghs.google.com.

Second settings Type: CNAME, Name: Specific ID, Content: Specific ID.

Specific ID means it's different for each blog account. see the attached image for your referrer

How to set up Cloudflare DNS with a blogger?

6. log in to your domain provider Cloudflare.com if you already have an account,

create new a account from this link. select your domain than on the left select DNS settings.

Copy the CNAMEs from the blogger and paste them into DNS records.

7. Select DNS settings, select Add Record, and enter one by one CNAMEs then saved

Type Name Content

CNAME WWW ghs.google.com

CNAME Specific ID Specific ID

8. it's optional if you want to redirect the URL from mysite.com to www.mysite.com you can set up a naked redirect. Select DNS settings, select Add Record, then add 4 times A with @ and IPs.

after you saved all settings.

Type Name Content

A @ 216.239.32.21

A @ 216.239.34.21

A @ 216.239.36.21

A @ 216.239.38.21

9. Go black to your blogger and saved the custom domain settings. Once you save the custom domain setting then wait for 24hr to complete the configuration between Cloudfare DNS and Blogger.