How to Create Feedburner Feed on Own Custom Subdomain URL?

Feedburner is a feed management service providing publishers to create a feed hosted on feedburner.com and deliver the content to subscribers over email. Feedburner was occurred by Google way back in 2007 and one of the widely used feed subscription service. Feedburner by default hosts the feed on their server and this article explains how to add own custom subdomain feed URL to your Feedburner feed.

Step 1 – Providing Feed Name

When you create a feed using Feedburner, the feed URL will be something like http://feeds.feedburner.com/Your-Feed-Name

Here, the feed name is mandatory and what you can do is to change the “feeds.feedburner.com” to “feeds.yourdomain.com”. The final feed URL should be like “http://feeds.yourdomain.com/Your-Feed-Name”

Step 2 – Copy CNAME Entry

Go to “My Account” section.

Under “My Brand” section copy the CNAME entry which should be something like xxxxxxx.feedproxy.ghs.google.com.

Step 3 – Create DNS Record for Your Domain

Login to your domain registrar and create a CNAME entry with the Feedburner code copied from the above step. Here is how to create a CNAME record in GoDaddy and Bluehost DNS editors.

Use the following details for creating a CNAME record:

Type : CNAME

Host : feeds (or any other subdomain of your choice)

Points to : xxxxxxx.feedproxy.ghs.google.com (enter your Feedburner code)

TTL : Leave this field as it is

Step 4 – Entering Custom Feed URL in Feedburner

Once created a CNAME record then go back to Feedburner account and enter your subdomain as a feed URL under “My Brand” section.

Save your changes and ensure the service is showing as active.

Step 5 – Check Feed in the Browser

Open a browser window and check your feed “http://feeds.yourdomain.com/Your-Feed-Name”. If your feed is not showing up then you may need to wait till the time DNS changes are propagated which may take up to 48 hours maximum.