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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.

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.