Google Apps for a Bare Domain
Sep. 30th, 2011 01:35 pmIf you have a bare domain, for instance
In about an hour, the first account will be created. After that, using the “Settings” tab, you can change the corresponding four services' URLs to subdomains
The resulting DNS records would be like this:
euromake.com registered on GoDaddy, without any hosting, it is still possible to use Google Apps. Moreover, setting them up can be done so that the bare domain would represent a Web site, redirecting to subdomains. Google Apps provides up to ten Google Mail/Chat/Calendar/Documents accounts with any aliases and 25 GB storage for free, plus Google Sites. The latter is the option to redirect the bare domain to its www subdomain which in turn could be mapped to one of the public sites created.In about an hour, the first account will be created. After that, using the “Settings” tab, you can change the corresponding four services' URLs to subdomains
mail, calendar, docs, and sites, for instance. Additionally, when at least one site has been created and made public, it can mapped to the www subdomain through the “Manage site” menu item. The last step within this initial configuration would be to go to “Domain settings” tab, then “Domain names”, and redirect the naked domain to its www subdomain.The resulting DNS records would be like this:
MX 1 EUROMAKE.COM.S200A1.PSMTP.COM. MX 2 EUROMAKE.COM.S200A2.PSMTP.COM. MX 3 EUROMAKE.COM.S200B1.PSMTP.COM. MX 4 EUROMAKE.COM.S200B2.PSMTP.COM. A 216.239.32.21 A 216.239.34.21 A 216.239.36.21 A 216.239.38.21 CNAME calendar ghs.google.com CNAME docs ghs.google.com CNAME mail ghs.google.com CNAME sites ghs.google.com CNAME www ghs.google.com TXT google-site-verification=XPBR5Ag_pM4pFfcT-OBn_oKEw4oGwjhtwrI8HGKNT-U
