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I have a site hosted through Google Sites and want to have a domain that was just purchased redirect to it. Subdomains are working fine using CNAME subdomain records, but I would like the bare domain to redirect to the www subdomain, which goes to the google site. Instructions from Google are to set up 4 A records going to 4 of their IP addresses, which I did under Domain Record, but entering the bare domain into the browser gives a Google 404 page. This was done Friday night so it should have had plenty of time for the DNS to propagate. There were some suggestions I found that said to use @ as a subdomain, but it looks like Dynadot does not support that syntax.

Hi,

I know it's an old topic and I'm not sure if you already resolved but I've just managed to make it work and I'm replying the topics with the same problem.

So, I have the website hosted in Google sites and I was using the wwwizer.com redirect before when I had another domain provider. But this redirect configuration requires to add a A record pointing  to ip 174.129.25.170. The problem is that Dynadot DNS settings wont't let me add CNAME and A record together. So, I could successfully make my naked domain work with the following settings

1. For DNS settings choose "Dynadot DNS"
2. In Domain Record add a 'Forward' type record (301) pointing to your domain begining with "http://www." (eg: http://www.georgeslanglois.com)
3. In Subdomain Records add a 'CNAME' type record with the subdomain "www" and IP Address / Host as "ghs.googlehosted.com"
4. Save settings.

This seems to be also working for https without any further configuration.

   

In our system, the @ means that the record you're trying to add should be done as a domain record, not a subdomain record.

In order for your bare domain to forward to the CNAME you've set up, you'll want to set a Forward domain record which includes your bare domain, while leaving the CNAME as subdomain record. That way, whenever your bare domain is entered, it will be forwarded to the CNAME.