How to Transfer My Domain to Google
Although Google does not offer traditional website hosting services, Google Apps is an email hosting service from Google that gives your domain’s email all of the services associated with Gmail. Built-in Google Apps services include Google Calendar, Google Chats, and Google Docs. Through Google Apps, you also have control over the way all of the email users on your domain use these services. Google Apps has both free and paid versions, but both require you to transfer your domain’s email configurations to Google’s servers.
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Instructions
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Log into your domain’s control panel. Locate the domain’s mail exchange (MX) controls.
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Delete the current MX records for your domain.
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Create MX records with Google’s server information. Create a new MX record with a priority of one, and set “ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM” as the mail server. Create another MX record, setting the priority as five,, and the mail server as “ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.” Create a third MX record, setting the priority as five, and “ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM” as the mail server. Create a fourth MX record, setting the priority as 10, and “ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM” as the mail server. Create a final MX record with a priority setting of 10, and a mail server of “ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.”
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Save the changes to your domain’s server records.
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Tips & Warnings
Due to the large differences between domain hosting company dashboards, some of these instructions can vary depending on your hosting company. Google offers further help specific to each of the major hosting companies (see Reference 1). The hosting company’s technical support team can also help you if you need help navigating their control panel.
Remember that Google Apps does not offer traditional domain hosting. Do not change any records other than the MX records to avoid website service interruptions.
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