Comments on: Stay Away from Blogger Custom Domains

By: Jason Heath

Jason Heath — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:59:00 +0000

I just checked out your post about the problems you’ve been having–frustrating. Google Apps is a great idea, and I just hope that these bugs get worked out. I was really excited to try it, but I’m going to hold off for quite a while myself.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:30:00 +0000

I'm having another problem with Google Apps for Your Domain that involves Google Reader.

Ah, the price of early adoption.

By: Jason Heath

Jason Heath — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:13:00 +0000

It sounds like you are having the exact same problem that I was having with Apps for your Domain. I decided to just use by BlogSpot account after a week of the kind of stuff you are talking about. Once you log in to Apps for Your Domain there will be a link to contact Google. You can click it and fill out a form (you can only briefly state your problem). Then Google will e-mail you an “is this for real?” message which you need to respond to. Then FINALLY (a few days later for me) Google will e-mail you with some pretty complicated instructions on how to delete your account.

I have absolutely no idea why they make it so hard to stop using their service, and I have no idea on earth why the URL will keep forwarding to the Google subdomain. That is exactly what happened to me, and it killed my traffic for a week (my numbers are still low from that experience–when people can’t get to your site sometimes they forget about you).

By: Rooster

Rooster — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:16:00 +0000

You forgot to tell us how you were able to contact Google customer service. You mentioned it is difficult, but you never shared with us how you actually did it.

Is there a form to fill out or an email address?

I'm having problems too. My problem is that I signed up for a domain through Google, and my homepage goes to a start page, which is nothing more than personalized Google for your domain. I disabled it but it's still going there, even though it says its disabled.

I try to add my domain name in Blogger, but it says that the name is already being used by another blog. I own the stinking domain! It's driving me crazy. I'm screaming at my computer. My neighbors probably think I've gone psycho. I feel like Michael Bolton from Office Space, where he's stomping on the fax machine.

I'm sure that eventually this service will be awesome, but I'm kind of frustrated now, because nobody seems to know what to do, and Google's support is extremely vague.

As I mentioned, I bought the domain through Google which has a partnership with GoDaddy for GAFYD. But I'm not all that concerned with GAFYD, although having Google Pages work with this and Gmail would be cool. I certainly don't need 200 accounts. I just want my blog to use my domain.

Now what?

By: Jason Heath

Jason Heath — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:41:00 +0000

I just dropped you an e-mail with a suggestion. Hope it works!

By: oceanskies79

oceanskies79 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:42:00 +0000

Thank you Jason. One of my other blog friends told me I could use Quicktime Pro to edit. However, I don’t have Quicktime Pro.

Will be keen to hear if there are other ways to cut that segment out.

By: Jason Heath

Jason Heath — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:24:00 +0000

I am not extremely good with that sort of DVD thing, but I will e-mail you and let you know what I’ve done before.

By: oceanskies79

oceanskies79 — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:14:00 +0000

I shall take note of your advice. Hey, this post earns quite a lot of comments too.

By the way, do you happen to know how to edit and cut out a segment of a DVD recording so that I can post that segment online? My conductor has given me a DVD recording of the entire chamber concert (the one that me and Emily and the rest of the double bass quartet had played in), but I have no idea what to do to post just that segment of the double bass quartet online.

If you happen to know, could you please advise? My email and MSN address is oceanskies at hotmail dot com. Thanks in advance.

By: Jason Heath

Jason Heath — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:37:00 +0000

Thanks for the info, Jacque. There may be something on my end I can do. I will poke around in Feedburner and clean up some settings.

By: Jason Heath

Jason Heath — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:34:00 +0000

Thanks for the nice words, PY. Everything is working fine now, although I would caution people against jumping into the custom domain option. It’s not quite ready for prime time yet.