Setting up Medium on your Google Domain

This should be easy

FIRST

Buy a domain.

This is a walkthrough of setting up a Google Domain on Medium, so if you followed Medium’s advice and bought through NameCheap you are on the wrong page of your choose-your-own-adventure.

SECOND

Follow these instructions to register your domain through Medium.

THIRD

Open the Google Domain registration email called ‘Getting Started with Google Domains’. Click the ‘Build a Website’ link. Go to ‘Configure DNS’.

Open the email from Medium you got for telling them you wanted to register your domain at Medium.

FOURTH: Entering A Names

Find the list of A names in the email from Medium. This is the long list of IP addresses that look like this: 52.0.16.118.

Navigate to ‘Custom resource records’ in the Google DNS setting page.

Enter all of your A records and save them all at the same time. To add more than one A record at a time click ‘+’ sign. Once they are all entered, click ‘Add’. If try to add one-by-one you will get a duplicate record error.

FIFTH: CNAMEs

In the same row you pasted the A values, paste the CNAME values like this. Note that the ‘A’ field dropdown is set to CNAME and the full string. Once entered, click ‘Add’. The www. line ensures your site works with ‘www.’ in the URL.

No need to click save — when you click ‘Add’ on the A and CNAME row it also saves your entries.

SIXTH: Wait

Medium will grant your site an SSL Cert within about 24 hours. If the site still is not reachable in 24 hours email Medium, and hopefully you will get to speak with Berik like I did.