title: Configuring Google Domain to point to Azure website
body: <p>I have an site hosted on Azure that I am trying to point a domain from Google Domains to.</p>
  <p>My current configuration is as follows:</p>
  <pre><code>Name       Type    Data 
   @         A       XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 
   www       CNAME   history-podcasts.azurewebsites.net
   awverify  CNAME   awverify.history-podcasts.com
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am following the instructions from here: <a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-custom-domain-name/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Configuring a custom domain name for an Azure Website.</a></p>
  <p>When I go to the Azure portal to Manage Domain and attempt to enter the url in DOMAIN NAMES, I get the following message:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>A CNAME record pointing from history-podcasts.com to history-podcasts.azurewebsites.net was not found. Alternative record awverify.history-podcasts.com to awverify.history-podcasts.azurewebsites.net was not found either</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>When I go to the URL for the domain, I get the following message:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>The website you have attempted to reach is not available in this Microsoft Azure Web Sites region. This could be due to one of several reasons:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>The web site owner has registered a custom domain to point to the Microsoft Azure Web Site, but has not yet configured Azure to recognize it. Click here to read more.</li>
  </ol>
  <p>When a site owner wants to use a custom domain with a Microsoft Azure Web Sites website, Azure needs to be configured to recognize the custom domain name, so that it can route the request to the appropriate server in the region. After registering the domain with a domain provider and configuring a DNS CNAME record to point to the site's Azurewebsites.net address (for example, contoso.azurewebsites.net), the website owner also needs to go to the Azure Portal and configure the site for the new domain. Click here to learn more about configuring the custom domains for a web site.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>This is the same configuration settings I am currently using for several domains through Namecheap with Azure hosting and they work as intended.</p>