Crawl Error - Domain Not Found

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Hey all, just wanted to see if anyone can provide some insight into my issue. I have a hostgator reseller account and for the last few years always build sites without an issue.

I have run into an issue today after checking in webmaster tools where it says that my domain is not found when I check crawl errors. I did exactly everything I usually do (for the last 3 years) and I have never encountered this problem.

It usually just take a few hours to get indexed but this one particular site was created days ago. I checked the name servers and they are pointing in the right direction. My site is up, I can visit it without an issue, anyone run into this before? I fetched a bot to see what it would say and it has a status of pending.

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author iBBnet
    I think it crawled the site at a time when your server went down. Just wait for it to re-crawl again and everything should be okay...
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    • Profile picture of the author Kysersoze
      Originally Posted by iBBnet View Post

      I think it crawled the site at a time when your server went down. Just wait for it to re-crawl again and everything should be okay...
      Thanks, I hope so!
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    • Profile picture of the author mikeconnway
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      • Profile picture of the author Kysersoze
        Originally Posted by mikeconnway View Post

        Perhaps iBBnet is right...
        Thanks Mike that was really helpful way to get that post count up.

        I am a bit frustrated as this site is still not indexed, anyone else have any input on what the issue may be? I would appreciate it!
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  • Profile picture of the author dhtw
    open up a DOS command prompt window and type in "ping yourdomain.com"

    if it response properly, means your name server setup is correct and the DNS is able to locate your site.

    I had this issue once before. I remembered going back to the domain registrar and re-keyed in the name servers (even though it was correct). I had earlier keyed in the name servers during domain purchase, it got registered corrected but somehow didn't propagate the name servers to the DNS.
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  • Profile picture of the author mihir
    your machine could have dns cache. so better to ping from nwtools.com so you actual realtime status
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