How to use Feedburner's My-Brand Pro with Godaddy
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How to use Feedburner's My-Brand Pro with Godaddy
Posted in Blog by Celox on 19-09-08
Since Google took over Feedburner.com all the PRO functions became free of charge, this is a great thing and of course should be known by everyone using or not using Feedburner. In this little blog tutorial I'm going to explain how to use the MyBrand PRO function with a Godaddy domain, I'm sure it's about the same with another domain registrar (you just have to find your "Total DNS records" in your control panel). I've just enabled this feature minutes ago and it's working greatly, check out my RSS feeds and don't forget to subscribe.
• Once logged in to your Godaddy account under "My products" click "Domains".
• Click the domain-name you want to use the MyBrand feature for (note: you can multiple domains in MyBrand PRO).
• Under "Total DNS" click "Total DNS Control and MX Records".
• Now click on the "Add new CNAME Record" button.
• In the "Enter an Alias Name" field fill in your preferred alias, I've used feeds
• In the "Points To Host Name" field fill in feeds.feedburner.com
• Leave the TTL (Time To Live) setting on 1 hour as it'll do nicely for this DNS record.
• Hit OK. Though, I should mention it can take upto 24 hours for your new CNAME record to work (it only took 10 minutes max at my account).
Here's a little explanation of what TTL is exactly, I've taken it from the ever so useful wikipedia. Read the full wikipedia article about TTL
"Time to live of DNS records:
TTLs also occur in the Domain Name System (DNS), where they are set by an authoritative nameserver for a particular resource record. When a caching (recursive) nameserver queries the authoritative nameserver for a resource record, it will cache that record for the time (in seconds) specified by the TTL. If a stub resolver queries the caching nameserver for the same record before the TTL has expired, the caching server will simply reply with the already cached resource record rather than retrieve it from the authoritative nameserver again. Nameservers may also have a TTL set for NXDOMAIN (acknowledgment that a domain does not exist); but they are generally short in duration (3 hours at most)."
TTLs also occur in the Domain Name System (DNS), where they are set by an authoritative nameserver for a particular resource record. When a caching (recursive) nameserver queries the authoritative nameserver for a resource record, it will cache that record for the time (in seconds) specified by the TTL. If a stub resolver queries the caching nameserver for the same record before the TTL has expired, the caching server will simply reply with the already cached resource record rather than retrieve it from the authoritative nameserver again. Nameservers may also have a TTL set for NXDOMAIN (acknowledgment that a domain does not exist); but they are generally short in duration (3 hours at most)."
Now let's get on with part 2 of this tutorial. We got our work done for the DNS record, the only thing we have to do now is tell feedburner we've created a CNAME for MyBrand. So getting yourself logged into your feedburner account is a good start
• Click on "My account", under Services click MyBrand PRO.
• Skip step 1 and 2 on the MyBrand page as we already did those steps for your Godaddy account. Fill in your new feeds URL into the input field in step 3, my URL is feeds.celoxdesign.net.
• Activate, save the MyBrand service and enjoy your new Feedburner's feed addresses.
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