github has a page for setting up domains. I have a CNAME file.

Namecheap.com has good security mechanisms in place. I had lost my administrative email account (since I have been going through email addresses lately) and went through recovery process to regain my domain name and they followed all best practices throughout the process. I do recommend them for this and renewing my domain was $11. It had expired and I was able to reactive without surcharges or loosing my domain to poachers.

@    204.232.175.78    A
www  andg.github.io    CNAME

I had a support email in place that adviced I made sure the following things were correct

• header
• gh-pages should be created with

git checkout -b gh-pages
git push origin gh-pages

I created an index.md file with the following sample header:

---
layout: default
title: Andrew Gauger
---

I committed this to both gh-pages and master to be sure

git checkout gh-pages
git add index.md
git commit -m "render markdown"
git push origin gh-pages
git checkout master
git merge gh-pages
git push origin master