How To Setup Freenom Domains (.Tk, .Ml, .Cf, .Ga, .Gq) As Blogger Custom Domain?

How To Setup Freenom Domains ( .Tk, .Ml, .Cf, .Ga, .Gq ) As Blogger Custom Domain? Adding a custom domain to your blog brings more professi...

How To Setup Freenom Domains (.Tk, .Ml, .Cf, .Ga, .Gq) As Blogger Custom Domain?

Adding a custom domain to your blog brings more professionality and increase your rankings in search engines. Adding a custom domain to your blogger blog will change your blog address from yourblog.blogspot.com to yourblog.com, yourblog.tk, yourblog.net or whatever domain extension you registered. Today I am going to share a great tutorial on how you can register free .tk, .ga, .gq, .cf, .ml domains for your blog and use it as a custom domain name in blogger. This will surely build a trust toward your visitors and increase your visitors count too as people prefer to visit a custom domain blog instead of a sub-domain. So let's start the tutorial on using freenom free domain names as blogspot blog's custom domain.

How to Register Free Freenom Domain :

Just follow the below steps to register your .tk, .ml, .cf, .ga, .gq domain name for 1 year absolutely free of cost. After the completion, we will discuss on how to use it as a custom domain on Blogger.

1. Go to Freenom.com and check availability by entering a great domain name for your blog.
2. If it is available, click on Get it now! button and the selected domain will be added to your cart.
3. After that, Click on checkout tab.
4. On the next page, change Period from 3 months to 12 months ( Don't worry, it remains free) and Click Continue.
   
5. Now enter your email address in the given space (as shown in picture) or you can use your social profile for login. If you want to sign up using email address then enter it and click on Verify my Email.
   
6. Check! You will receive a confirmation link to your email address. Simply, click on that. 
7. Congrats! You have registered your free domain.

Now It's time to set up to use it as a custom domain. For doing so, follow the steps.

How to Set Freenom Custom Domain to Blogger?

1. Go to your Blogger blog's Dashboard and click on the Settings tab.
2. Under Publishing, you will see a button like this: "+Set up a third-party URL for your blog", Click on that.
3. Enter the domain name you just registered through Freenom. (along with www) and click Save.
4. It will show error, Don’t worry it means that your freenom domain does not yet point to any DNS record.
5. So, Go to your freenom account. On Menu bar “Domains” click on sub-menu “My Domains”
   
6. Click on Manage Domains and then Manage Freenom DNS.
   
7. Enter the CNAME records as shown by Blogger (in step 4)
8. Also, add these 4 A records. (Leave Name Empty and enter these values one by one in Target Area.

   216.239.32.21

   
   

   216.239.34.21

   
   

   216.239.36.21

   
   

   216.239.38.21

   Click on Save changes. For picture preview on how to correctly enter DNS records. 
   
9. Now, move to Blogger account (as you leave in step 4) and click on Save button again. 
10. It will not show any error now and will get saved.
    Sometimes, It may take up to few minutes to update the DNS records, so keep patience if it still shows error and tries saving it after 5-10 minutes. 
11. Once it gets saved, Click on Edit and tick the redirect box and press Save again.
    

Well done! You have successfully setup a free custom domain name for your blogspot blog. Freenom domains can be used on any website rather than using a custom domain on blogger.