Moving from blogspot to Blogger custom domain is supposed to be an easy transition. I’ve tested it several times on my test blog and everything was fine… until I applied it to my actual blog. It showed 0 comments on all posts! grr…
As I mentioned last week I was just a few clicks away from moving to my own domain. I’ve set www as CNAME record pointed to ghs.google.com. and ran DIG service to look up information in the DNS. The result showed my domain already pointed to Google server:
www.alittleboysblog.net. 14400 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
ghs.google.com. 184963 IN CNAME ghs.l.google.com.
ghs.l.google.com. IN A 74.125.43.121
HTTP trace on my blogspot blog also showed it was permanently redirected to new domain:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: evan-keona.blogspot.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Referer: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
Connection: close• Finding host IP address…
• Host IP address = 74.125.19.191
• Finding TCP protocol…
• Binding to local socket…
• Connecting to host…
• Sending request…
• Waiting for response…
Receiving Header:
HTTP/1.1·301·Moved·Permanently(CR)(LF)
Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=UTF-8(CR)(LF)
X-Frame-Options:·ALLOWALL(CR)(LF)
Location:·http://www.alittleboysblog.net/(CR)(LF)
Date:·Thu,·18·Mar·2010·04:49:46·GMT(CR)(LF)
Expires:·Thu,·18·Mar·2010·04:49:46·GMT(CR)(LF)
Cache-Control:·private,·max-age=0(CR)(LF)
X-Content-Type-Options:·nosniff(CR)(LF)
Server:·GSE(CR)(LF)
X-XSS-Protection:·0(CR)(LF)
Connection:·close(CR)(LF)
(CR)(LF)
So what was wrong? I googled it and apparently this problem already became “a known issue” on Blogger:
Some users are experiencing comment count discrepancies on their blog, specifically for older comments during the December-January timeframe. We have isolated the underlying problem though, and are working to release a fix shortly.Also, if you have recently switched hosting from BlogSpot to a custom domain, it may take up to a few hours before the counts are synced completely (and this is expected). — latest update on Sunday, March 07, 2010
After more than 24 hours since the switching without progress (my old comments haven’t showed up), this morning I switched back to blogspot, exported this blog to XML file and switched back to new domain. So to all of you who commented here, do not worry, your comments are save in my disk. I can restore them later should this problem continue.
I will wait for a few days (at least until weekend) to give time for Blogger to sync properly before deciding what to do. Meanwhile, I’m also preparing a WordPress blog for this blog so in case I can’t get my comments back on Blogger I will transfer it to WordPress. Ironic, isn’t it?
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Update @7:40 PM:
Everything is fine now, I can see all comments are back. Maybe the process took longer than I thought. So if you experience similar thing when switching to custom domain, try to be more patient and don’t hit the panic button too quickly like I did 
Or you can try to switch back to blogspot then republish on custom domain again. I’m not sure if it can speed up the process but that’s what I did this morning so who knows…
Posted by Evan's Mom at 11:59 am 
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Hope all will be settled soon.
@Lina,
It's settled now, all comments are back
Maybe I should be more patient with this moving thing ;))
Thanks for heads up
been wondering why my db is showing 0.. i thought it was JSKit
I recently moved LJL to wordpress and THAT took lots of patience
@LJ,
Oh no, hope you can get them back soon. There are lots of people complain about loosing comments on blogger forum too.
Ya WP theme is so confusing! Still can't figure out how to hack it, so I think I'll stick to blogger for this blog
Oh yes.. blogger is sooooo much easier for sure.. but i need fun right now.. and hacking and tweaking is fun! lol!
Oh yay ur comments are back sweetie, and congrats on the new domain! =))
@LJ,
LOL. It's fun for me too (at first), but after weeks and still can't figure it out how, it becomes frustrating ~x(
@Mariuca,
Yes thank God they're back! Thanks dear, I should have done that months ago. I've own it since last year but instead of moving I spent times learning about WP (thought would convert it to WP), but in the end get stuck with Blogger :))
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