Web hosting & redirecting Blogger

Okay, quick (or maybe not a quick) question:

I'm helping some friends who own a small business deal with getting a web presence. They know very little about the internet and how things work. I know just a bit more than them.

The have bought a domain name and I have created a Blogger site for them, since it's reasonably easy for them to update. I want to redirect the Blogger site to their domain name. It's looking like their going to have to buy web hosting to be able to do this. Is there any really cheap alternative to this? All I need to do is point their domain name at the Blogger site.

Hostmonster said that we'd need to purchase hosting if we wanted the Blogger to show up at that domain, so I was confused.

I went ahead and follwed Blogger's instructions like you said and I got this message -

The DNS record for your domain is not set up correctly yet. If you just purchased this domain the set up process may take up to a day. Learn more.

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It seems like you could hijack any site you wanted if you could just plug the URL into your Blogger dashboard. What am I missing?

(And thanks for your help!)

I've found some set-up instructions:

1. Find the control panel on your domain registrar’s website, and locate your DNS (Domain Name System) settings. In order to link your blog to your custom domain, follow the instructions below to enter your "CNAME" and "A-records."
   CNAME
   Where it says Name, simply enter "www" and list ghs.google.com as the Host Name. See our detailed instructions on providing CNAMEs for various registrars. If yours isn't listed, or if you run into other difficulties, contact your registrar directly and they can help you out.
   A-records (optional)
   The following action links your naked domain (example.com) to your actual site (www.example.com). If you skip this step, visitors who leave off the "www" will see an error page.
   Enter your domain name in the format example.com, and list the I.P. addresses shown below in the "A" section. You'll need to create four separate A-records which point to four different Google IPs.

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Of course, all of this makes me cry. I hate helping people with this stuff. Invariably, they'll want to do something I don't know how to do.

Yes, sadly, they don't have one for HostMonster.

veinglory said:

You don't need a host. You can do it that way, but you can do it this way also. It's a bt fiddly to work out what to do but not difficult.

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Actually, I think I've almost got it -- maybe. Lol! Big sigh.

You guys are awesome! I've been running around a bit these last two days, but I hope to get the transfer in the works later tonight or tomorrow at the latest.