Unto the pure, all things are pure

Google's instructions on this subject are terribly misleading, and in an attempt to make them comprehensible to the layman make them worse. Look at this screen shot by Google when you ask for instructions to set up spqr.mydomain.com to point to your own blogspot site: It's incorrect. www.example.com is NOT a top-level domain. www.example.com is no different from foo.example.com as far as "levels" are concerned. 90% of the world have the impression that www is something special. "www.abc.com" (it should be "www.abc.com.") is a domain, just like "abc.com", or "com". Many people have difficulty understanding this, but that's how the Internet domain name system is defined, and works.  Do invest a minute to let this sink in. The next error: you cannot add two CNAME records to a domain and still be meaningful.  A CNAME record is, like 99.99% of the time, used to create an alias for a domain name.  When we say, lazily,...