Hi Jason,

You don't need to change your registrar - just your DNS host. I believe
zoneedit support wildcard CNAMEs.

-Nick

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Jason Collins <jason.a.coll...@gmail.com>wrote:

> When you map a custom domain to App Engine, you use a CNAME entry that
> points to some-host.your-domain.com.
>
> Our products often use a dynamic, programmatic hostname, e.g.,
> [dynamic-host].our-domain.com.
>
> Google Apps supports a wildcard host mapping, which is great.
>
> However, our domain registrar (GoDaddy) does not support a wildcard
> CNAME, they only support a wildcard A record. So, we've hacked it to
> use an IP address that ghs.google.com resolves to, knowing this is
> fragile.
>
> And, of course, one of the IP address that we were using for
> ghs.google.com changed sometime overnight and our sites broke.
>
> Does anyone know of a registrar that supports wildcard host matches on
> CNAME records. It seems that GoDaddy.com and register.com do _not_.
>
> Or, any other solutions? (I definitely don't want to front this with
> my own proxy.)
>
> Thanks,
> j
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