Hello! I have purchased a domain already for my Blogger blog, but was not yet on any web hosting. It says the setup may take up to 24 hours after I setup my blog to it's custom domain. Will my domain name be live by just waiting for the setup to complete within 24 hours on my Blogger blog? Or should I need FTP settings? Please help me for my blog. Sorry if this is the wrong section just in case. Thanks!
You don't need to use FTP if you are not using your own hosting service. If you are using Blogger's own hosting service, then just change the CNAME records in your domain registrars control panel as ghs.google.com and wait for DNS to propagate. A typical Blogger custom domain setup is available here.
You don't need to set up FTP, unless you're actually planning to post by email (that's Blogger for you!). Just set up the DNS settings as explained in Blogger's help. You should start seeing your site very quickly, it takes 24 hours to propagate all over the world, but whenever I added a domain, I started seeing it live withing the hour.
Ok guys. My blog is: http://bogartkickerz.blogspot.com I changed it to: http://www.bogartkickerz.com (still offline) I registered this domain about two days ago at Xtraorbit Web Hosting (domain only w/o web hosting). I already set it's A servers which are 4 IP's I think given on Blogger, and it's CNAME that is ghs.google.com. Should I just wait for my domain to be live? Or I should go back to my free Blogspot domain? What would be the effect now? I'm really confused now. Thanks!