Configure rediff domain with blogger and Google apps email and blogspot ?

I recently purchased a ".in" extension domain mobdev.in from rediff.com domain services, since google does not have this extension in their custom domain list to purchase, i found rediff was offering a good deal for the .in domains (Go for bigrock) than godaddy or names.com so i purchased from them, though i know this offer does not applies for subsequent years of renewal and the cost of renewal be regular 640rs+ tax.

After purchasing the domain i found that rediff domain dashboard is clumsy and quite tricky than enom or godaddy, and it was very hard to configure blogspot and google apps with it since no one posted on the net on how to do it, after lot of trial and errors i was able to configure .in domain with Blogger and Google Apps for email service.

I followed instruction bits and pieces found on internet and some details in my enom dashboard which was auto configured by google with my main blog and after lots of tweaks it is working well below are the instructions on how to do it with snap shots.

First of all update your (A records)
rediff allows you to add only two records just configure with ip 216.239.32.21 and 216.239.34.21 as shown in below pic
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Configure MX records for your domain
if you want to host email on google for free then you have to add google email server"aspmx.l.google.com." address as shown in below pic.

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Configure Domain Forwarding or CName Records

this is rather tricky and confusing part in rediff dashboard... since rediff does not provide add option to add new entry, click on edit on existing entry add new one save it this acts as "ADD" and don't worry previous entry will be intact edited(new) entry comes in new line... now add calendar, email,docs etc entries and point it to "ghs.google.com."

before creating these entries don't forget to create a google apps account, to sign-up visit this link https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new after filling the details you will be given a googlecode as shown in below pic(boxed with red) add it to cname you are done.

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and now there is no need to configure remaining entries just leave it as default.

After configuring this exactly as show in above pics go to your blogger dashboard give the website url in dashboard--> Settings-->click on "Publishing" and configure it as shown in below picture(This step applies if you want to use your domain with blogspot else ignore this step)
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between don't panic wait for about 24hrs to everything propagated in mean while if you try to open the website you may get bad request, website does not exist all sorts of things... mine took 7hours to get activated but if you directly purchase from Google custom domain it gets activated within 5mins :) but Google does not provide option to purchase .in domains from them.

Though this configuration are purely based on my R&D it is working very much fine without a glitch if you think i have made a mistake or there needs something to be changed please feel free to comment so that i can correct myself and this post entry.