Getting Refund for Custom Domains!
By Vin at 14 October, 2008, 8:47 am
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Blogger offers a great facility to get rid of the ‘blogspot’ in your blog address. You can use the Custom Domains facility to redirect your blogspot.com blog to an easy to remember domain like www.myblog.com. For only 10 US dollars you also get a lot of additional features like Privacy Protection and Google Apps. Also Blogger configures your domain records automatically. Sometimes however, it may not work so efficiently. Then you have to login at Google Apps :
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/DomainSettingsAdvancedDns
to change the CNAME and A records. Sometimes this process may get a bit difficult since you have to login to your domain registrar : Godaddy.com or enom.com. Then you have to change the settings within their pages. After changing the settings it takes some hours for the change to propagate to all DNS servers.
Google does not give DNS management services. Also the domain name is bought through the two Google partners mentioned above. When caught in all these processes the new webmaster tends to get confused and sometimes even requests a refund! However the 10$ is paid to ICANN . The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the private sector, non-profit corporation created in 1998 to assume responsibility for Internet addresses which you type in a browser to reach a site.
Most domain name registrars have a “no refund domain name registration fees under any circumstances, and the registration period cannot be shortened or canceled.” policy. This is because the registry will not let them de-register the domain name and will not refund them for the same. Hence before registering a domain name double check the spelling and make sure that you actually want to register it because it is not reversible.
Since Google or Blogger has not taken any money from you for Custom Domains it will not be refunded to you. Blogger has only facilitated the domain registration process and linked you to a domain name registrar all free of charge.
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