Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Make CustomDomains Blogspot available

Google's CustomDomains Blogspot on January 5 this year, however, only 6 days later all the blogs were banned by GFW.

Six months pass, the CustomDomains are still under block. Obviously, the Gov doesn't want its people to read the "sensitive content" from some blogspot blogs and it feels it's inefficient to block specific blogs only because the authors can easily display same content by creating more blogs on blogspot, so GFW have to ban all blogs that using blogspot sub-domain and CustomDomains.

Since the blogspot sub-domain is controlled by Google, we have no authority to change it. While the CustomDomains are based on our own domain names, and luckily Hong Xiaowan discovered that we can fix this "bug" by using Google's backup IP. Hong writes:
Actually, Google has many backup IPs located in different places, the IPs visited may differ from time to time. Though the CNAME of Google's Blogger Custom Domains is banned, we can switch to A Records to make the CustomDomains Blogspot available in China.

Take HiChina's DNS control panel for example:


An available IP address: 72.14.207.121