Edublogs Supporters can use their own custom domain names at no extra charge!

And it’s easy to use a custom Domain Name with your Edublogs blog (such as ourblog.com in place of ourblog.edublogs.org).

Edublogs supports several options for custom domain mapping:

1) Full-domain mapping (e.g. ourblog.com)
2) Sub-domain mapping (e.g. theblog.oursite.com)

In order to have either of these working correctly, please ensure that you already have purchased a Domain Name and can access the DNS settings. If you do not currently own a Domain Name, GoDaddy is a great place to purchase one.

Full-Domain Mapping:

1) Log into your DNS control panel or send a support request to your registrar (the company or organiztion you’ve purchased the domain name from)

2) Add either a single “A Record” for your domain to point to the following three IP Addresss: 66.135.63.39, 66.135.63.40, 66.135.63.41. If you can only specific a single IP address per record, you may be able to add three separate A records

PLEASE NOTE: GoDaddy doesn’t required the three IP addresses — please follow the instructions below to set up your domain with GoDaddy!

Setting up your domain mapping using GoDaddy

  1. Log into your GoDaddy Account
  2. Click on Advanced Details next to your domain name (or alternatively click on Domain Manager under My Products and then the name of your domain) Image of accessing configuration area
  3. Next click on Total DNS control

  4. Image of Total DNS control

  5. Click edit in the @ row under A (Host)

    Image of editing A host

  6. Change Points to Ip address to 66.135.63.39 and then click OK
  7. Log into your blog and Go to Tools > Domain Mapping in your Dashboard
  8. Insert your domain name and click Add

    Image of domain mapping

  9. Click on Visit Site to make sure your blog URL is now your domain name and your blog is loading.
    • Please note: may take 24-48 hours for these DNS changes to propagate across the internet, so please be patient while this happens – you may see errors such as this domain is for available on GoDaddy or not be able to access your blog during this period (however GoDaddy is fairly quick and it should happen within an hour
    • Please check details are correct in your GoDaddy account if you are still seeing error messages after 1 hour

Image of checking site is configured

Sub-domain mapping:

1) Log into your DNS control panel or send a support request to your registrar (the company or organiztion you’ve purchased the domain name from)

2) Add a CNAME record for your subdomain (e.g. ourblog.oursite.com) to point to sb.edublogs.org

Please note that it may take 24-48 hours for these DNS changes to propagate across the internet, so please be patient while this happens – you may see errors or not be able to access your blog during this period (but odds are it’ll just be a matter of an hour or two).