How to setup a custom domain on blogger with Strato.com

Strato is another hosting provider that offers a very cheap domain and hosting. In fact, I recently bought a domain .com from them at $0.96 for a year. There Virtual / Dedicated server is $9.99 per month for two months, You can see this is awesome! Many webmasters and bloggers find it difficult to set up there domain with Google blogger. However, I will teach you on how to configure your domain bought from strato to point to your Blogger. To get started you need to get your cheap domain .com from strato Get domain with $0.96 for a year Your account will be review and activated. After your account is activated, You will need to point your domain to your blogger by following the below steps:

1. Login to your blogger
Goto your blogger settings, you will see basic settings. navigate through the basic settings, you will see blog address. Then click third parties domain, you will see a box where to input your domain name. Enter the domain name you bought from strato for example, "www.chiwapz.com" It will return an error message in red colour. copy the following parameters in the error message:

Name or Label: www
Destination: ghs.google.com

Name or Label: dfertyghwers
Destination: gv.fdsgvbdsjh.dv.googlehosted.com

2. Login to your Strato account
 Locate the domain management on your strato account

You will see your domain on the list. Then manage your domain by creating your sub domain with the name or label on your blogger account "www" and the second sub domain "dfertyghwers"

Then you need to manage your sub domain "www"
In the window below  please select the DNS settings and click on manage in the CNAME column.

 It will take you to a page where to input your cnames which is the destination that correspond to www
The destination that correspond to www is ghs.google.com

Click through the "Accept settings"
You also need to follow the same procedures for the second sub domain that you created "dfertyghwers"
The corresponding cnames is "gv.fdsgvbdsjh.dv.googlehosted.com"
Note: This name and destination are gotten from your bloggers account in the settings -> basic settings -> third party domain -> entering your domain in the box provided.

3. Configure your blogger account
 Navigate to your blogger account -> Settings -> Basic settings -> Third party domain -> Enter the domain
Now you are not expected to get error message unlike the first steps. Your domain is now connected to the blogger. If you still get error message, please wait for the domain to propagate and enter the domain again. You can also go over the Step 1 and Step 2 again, correct the necessary errors.
Your domain will be accessible with www.yourname.com but the naked domain (yourname.com) won't be accessible  except you mark the redirection box (redirect "yourname.com" to "www.yourname.com") in the edit "www.yourname.com" in the basic settings.
Now your domain is now successfully connected to the blogger. Happy blogging!