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Anyone else finding it taking longer for new domains to resolve?

by xDennis
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For the past few weeks, all of my domains .info and .com's have been taking forever. It used to take 24hrs MAX but now it's taking days... it's weird. Anyone else have this problem?

BTW I've been registering with godaddy and hosting on hostgator

One of my domains was actually registered on host gator ( a friends website) and this is still taking forever.
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  • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
    This happened to the last site I put up a few weeks ago. Very frustrating.

    The funny thing was I could view the site through a proxy, but couldn't get the site to come up when I went to it. I had several friends look for the site from all over the US and it wasn't there for them, either.

    Finally, after about 50 hours it came online for good. This was on an existing hosting account I had for a year, I just replaced one site with the other.

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  • Profile picture of the author greff
    I haven't bought a domain in the last two weeks, but I suspect the problem is at GoDaddy. I register my names now at another place. I don't think Hostgator is the problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    MOST likely cause is the refresh rate of the DNS cache at your local ISP. Do the domains resolve for anyone else in different parts of the world?
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  • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
    I haven't noticed anything and I register 2-5 domains a week.

    You may already know this, but always remember to point your newly
    registered domain's DNS to your nameservers BEFORE you add it to
    the server you host your sites on.

    When I do this, my site is resolved in less than 3 minutes. However I
    register my domains at Namecheap and don't use HostGator. (i dont think
    any of this matters either though)

    Doing it the other way around always takes a lot longer.

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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by xDennis View Post

      For the past few weeks, all of my domains .info and .com's have been taking forever. It used to take 24hrs MAX but now it's taking days... it's weird. Anyone else have this problem?
      I registered a domain with GoDaddy on the 22nd and it was resolving within minutes.

      Originally Posted by jasondinner View Post

      You may already know this, but always remember to point your newly registered domain's DNS to your nameservers BEFORE you add it to the server you host your sites on.
      I do this exactly the opposite, but I have a dedicated server with my own DNS. So my system goes like this:

      - Create virtual server for the domain
      - Stick my web content on it
      - Create DNS records for the domain
      - Register the domain at GoDaddy
      - Set the nameservers to mine

      I can rip through this process in about five minutes. The most time consuming part is clicking all those damn buttons at GoDaddy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    Thanks for the good advice. I have only had this problem once with hostgator but I went onto chat and was told it would take another 12 hours. That was fine, if you think it is taking too long, go to live chat and ask.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    I haven't had that problem. You might want to change registrars. I use Dynadot. My last domain purchase (a couple weeks ago) was reachable within minutes.
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  • Profile picture of the author TomGR
    The only problem I have noticed and the only reason I was getting delayed was because I was visiting the website address before I finish setting it up (correct DNS, finish registration properly, etc).

    If you fix these first and then visit your website you should have it up and running within a few minuted (last domain registered was today through Godaddy).


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