Google Pages hosting with/without WWW

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As a tip to godaddy subscribers (such as myself), I post my experiences with google page hosting...

I have a host (example.org for this writeup) domain purchased through godaddy.com, and I wanted to host pages at Google. Google makes it easy to point http://www.example.org to their page hosting services, but there is no (or little) information about making http://example.org point to the same web site. The result was that if you people visited http://example.org, they would be greeted with a godaddy domain parked page.

The good people at godaddy.com lead me to forward the main domain to the subdomain.

• I had already setup godaddy as Google pages suggested creating a CNAME to point to ghs.google.com.
• I ensured that the A record for Host @ is set to the original value set up by godaddy.com.
• I then clicked on example.org and clicked the "Forward" button, enabled forwarding to "http://www.example.org" with option "302 Moved Temporarily".

Now, when someone tries http://example.org, the forwarding should cause them to browser redirect to http://www.example.org, which has a cname record pointing to ghs.google.com, which should bounce the browser to google pages for example.org.

In short, http://example.org (and http://www.example.org) should now end up at http://www.example.org-a.googlepages.com

I hope this helps godaddy customers who have google apps page hosting.