DNS Settings

So, I'm not quite sure about how Google manages redirects, nor am I 100% sure that I'm configuring things appropriately with my domain registrar, but here's what's going on now:

• www.sw-dd.com is CNAME'd to ghs.google.com (should pull data from Google Sites' servers, à la sites.google.com/a/sw-dd.com/www/home
• http://sw-dd.com (the naked domain) is A'd to a Level-3 host (the way Spot Domain does URL redirects)
• *.sw-dd.com is A'd to the above Level-3 host
• blog.sw-dd.com is CNAME'd to ghs.google.com (and configured in Blogger)

All this means that users should be able to access the Google Sites' page via either www.sw-dd.com or just sw-dd.com, and the blog via blog.sw-dd.com .

Of course, it's kind of weird to do set up the URL forwarding, as it stands now, the URL forwarding redirects traffic from sw-dd.com to www.sw-dd.com, which theoretically requires 2 domain lookups, hits ghs.google.com, and then Google forwards the appropriate data.

The funny thing is, sites.sw-dd.com is currently also CNAME'd to Google, and theoretically should redirect people to the login page for Google Sites, not the site itself--which is confusing.

To be honest, I think Google should become their own domain registrar, and offer domains to people themselves. It be awesome to just point, click, register, and have everything configured appropriately.

How do you redirect your naked domain?

UPDATE

Well, everything seems to be working OK for now. The main naked site and www work as expected, as does blog and sites as subdomains. Hooray!