A few days ago, I purchased the jiayee.net domain. Yesterday, I purchased the jiay.ee domain. It was a novel experience for me. I last “purchased” a domain from Freenom about 3 years ago. Back then, I had the free domain point to my AWS EC2 public IP address (this was for CS3216). This week, my custom domains are pointing towards GitHub pages and Blogger respectively.
For GitHub pages, I followed a guide which is like this one by Rich.
- Get a domain.
- Go to your GitHub pages repository and set the custom domain to the one you purchased.
- Go to your DNS settings and add the following records:
| Type | Host | Value | TTL |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | @ | 185.199.108.153 | Up to you |
| A | @ | 185.199.109.153 | Up to you |
| A | @ | 185.199.110.153 | Up to you |
| A | @ | 185.199.111.153 | Up to you |
| CNAME | www | jia1.github.io. | Up to you |
Remember to replace jia1.github.io. with your GitHub pages URL. Keep the trailing period as is. Here’s GitHub’s official docs if you wish to find out more or verify the correctness of the steps above.
As for Blogspot:
| Type | Host | Value | TTL |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNAME | xxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxx | Up to you |
| CNAME | www | ghs.google.com. | Up to you |
Each of the xxxxxxxx is a different value, provided by Blogger. This record containing xxxxxxxx helps Blogger verify domain ownership. Here’s Blogger’s help page. Refer to Step 2: Connect to your non-Google domain from Blogger.
My next step is to switch to Cloudflare’s DNS manager, instead of continuing to manage my domains with the domain providers as the latter’s UI are not that ideal (i.e. requiring many clicks just to get to the DNS settings).