Okay, this one is for the Google team.

I have a blog called ColonyWorlds.blogspot.com that I am trying to
migrate over to ColonyWorlds.com .

Problem is, it keeps telling me that:

"Another blog is already hosted at this address."

Now, I've already checked the server and I DO NOT have a blog over at
that address. And the ironic thing is, I can create a
blog.colonyworlds.com address, a blog1.colonyworlds.com, heck, I can
even create darnellisagooglefreak.colonyworlds.com but it won't let me
create a blog at colonyworlds.com .

All my other weblogs seem to work on other domains except this one. I
am about to give up as I do not see any problems on my web hosts end.
I'll give them a quick call, but they will probably tell me exactly
what I am seeing: there is no blog there (as I don't even have hosting
hooked up to that web address).

It's a weekend, so I do not expect Uncle Google to come to the rescue
until next week. But if Uncle Google (or Auntie for the ladies) could
provide a solution, I would definitely be a very happy blogger.

~Darnell

I'm having a similar problem. I have vulnerableminds.blogspot.com and
have been using that for a month or two. Just this past few weeks I set
up a google custom domain, and spent today using the tutorial provided
for setting up domain specific blogspot accounts.

The Tutorial: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=55373

For some reason at this point my blog doesn't resolve at all, though my
googlepages webpage does resolve.

I'm not sure what the issue is, but I think it's conflicts with the
ghs.google.com between the blog (which should be resolving at
blog.vulnerableminds.com) and my main page (www.vulnerableminds.com).
At least so says my DNS.

Anyone have any problems like this or know a solution?

Ah.  Looks like I'm not the only one with the same problem.  I am also
trying to use my personal domain (thru godaddy.com) and forward my
blogger to that.  I'm not sure what is up.

Maybe I need to wait and be patient.  I changed the CNAME record on
godaddy.com and it may take a few days?  I will wait and see.

I think I figured out why this is happening.

NOTE: This is just a working theory, and unless Uncle Google can
provide some insight into this dilemma, then I think they may want to
implement my "solution" below.

If you try to publish to your blogspot domain and get this error:

"Another blog is already hosted at this address."

This may be due to the fact that someone mistakingly took your domain
so a blogger half way around the world may have it "registered" as
attached to their weblog when in reality you own the domain.

Say I want to publish to a domain called "cheeseheadlimited.com" via
blogger. Ironically, a swiss person may own the domain and want a
blogspot publishing to that domain as well.

But since I did it first (out of curiosity) Google thinks the domain
belongs to me (first come, first serve) instead of the swill lady. So,
she gets an error on her Google Account while I have it reserved for my
weblog, but cannot really publish there.

What Google needs to do is find someway to create a validation system
(what we had in Google Apps) by having users create a web page with a
bunch of numbers  (like 4543254253google.html) to validate you really
own the domain.

This would (IMHO) resolve this issue and make everyone very happy.

That's my theory, what's yours?

~Darnell

DarnellClayton.com

So. If I am getting such an error what can I do to resolve it? I own my
domain so why can't I use Blogger to publish to my domain??? HELP!?

Hi !

This problem occur when you have a Google Apps with you myname.com
domain. For use Blogger Custom Domain, you need DISABLE the Google Apps
Domain Page for the subdomain www.

It's works to me !

my blogspot: weber.blogspot.com
My domain: www.weberress.com

Best !

Weber Ress

Thanks Weber, this solved the issue! Now I have a new problem. :-(

How do I get my blog to be seen both on www and mydomain.com ?

Example:

DarnellClayton.com my blog shows up.
But at www.darnellclayton.com it does not. What gives?

~Darnell

hello friends,

I'm using FTP publishing for my blog : www.DelhiEvents.com & want to
switch to custom domain but keep using my FTP for subfolders for images
& scripts. Will that work fine once i switch to custom domain.

Cheers, Rohit

Have you gotten an answer on this or gotten it to work? Blogger custom
domains seems to support EITHER example.com OR www.example.com but not
both. Can we get confirmation on this from the Blogger team?

Hey Philip!

I think I found a solution! It's long, and semi-tedious, but it worked
with four of my weblogs.

You can test it out for yourself over here:

http://www.darnellclayton.com/2007/01/resolving-that-404-www-blogger-...

Let me know if this works for you or not.

~Darnell

This may be a faster solution to the one proposed above.

http://www.darnellclayton.com/2007/01/revisiting-that-404-www-blogger...

This should work within ten minuets, but may take up to 24 hours. Let
me know either way.