Monday, April 20, 2009

Sample "Google Adsense for Domains" site, where domain is registered on "IXWebHosting.com"

In fact, "IXWebHosting.com" is not listed with guides on "Google Adsense for Domains". I worked with their "Customer Service" for quite a while and finally made it work!

In fact, Google Adsense's guide requested me to create 4 A Record and 1 CNAME record on the DNS server, as the flowing description shows:
Create the following A records for your domains at your domain registrar:
Host name / Alias       Record Type     Value / Destination
@       A (address)     216.239.32.21
@       A (address)     216.239.34.21
@       A (address)     216.239.36.21
@       A (address)     216.239.38.21

Next, create the following CNAME (alias) records for your www host using your domain registrar:
Host name / Alias       Record Type     Value / Destination
www     CNAME (alias)   pub-4328197501531776.afd.ghs.google.com.
 

However, "IXWebHosting.com"'s DNS management interface does not support "@" as A Record's host name. After their customer service responded, I realized just leave the (Host) Name field blank is the same as "@".

Then, I found "IXWebHosting.com"'s interface only support 1 such record. Too bad! Luckily, one is just enough! I think it is only for fail-safe of Google Adsense's DNS server, so they request 4 records.

The sample site now is like this:
http://www.ftpdrive.net