Own Domain For Individuality

To create an identity for this blog, I bought a domain name from GoDaddy.com for US$ 10.19 per year. That is the rate for .com domains. Luckily I got a short domain name, tim4u.com.

There was some confusion while configuring the domain name to point to this blog. Blogger Help says to create a CNAME record as below:

1. Log in to your account at www.godaddy.com.


2. Open the Domains tab and select My Domain Names. You'll be directed to the Domain Manager page.


3. Click the domain that you'd like to use with your blog.


4. Click the Total DNS Control And MX Records link at the bottom of the section entitled Total DNS.


5. Click Add New CNAME Record in the box labelled CNAMES (aliases). If you've already created a CNAME record for your blog's address, click the pencil icon next to the existing CNAME record.


6. For the Name, enter only the subdomain of the address you want to use for your blog. For example, if you picked www.mydomain.com as your address, enter www here.


7. Enter ghs.google.com as the Host Name. Specify a TTL or use the default setting of 1 hour.


8. Click OK, and then click OK again.

It all works fine for www.tim4u.com. But the help document doesn't say anything on how to make tim4u.com (URL without www) to point to the blog. It was just not working. Finally I forwarded tim4u.com to www.tim4u.com from the GoDaddy.com control panel.

So if someone types tim4u.com in the browser, first it redirects to www.tim4u.com and then to the blog hosted at blogspot.com.

Is there a better solution? If so, please share it in the comments section.