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I have Host Gator and transferred a domain over from Go Daddy but the domain isn't showing up in my Cpanel just yet. Any one know how long it takes? I have not done it in a long time so i may have missed a step but i know when i uploaded my wordpress it didn't take this long. Thanks for your help in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author SageSound
    I'd contact HG's tech support.

    My personal experience moving domains out of GD is they take as long as they possibly can.

    -David
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      I've had sites take upwards of 6-8 hours when redirecting the domain from GoDaddy.
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  • Profile picture of the author TommyBussey
    Is this an additional domain on this specific Host Gator account? If so, the stepped you've missed is the "Add Domain" function.

    - Tommy

    PS. Mike has a good point, I'm creating a new site right now and it took until the next day to show up online. But it should be in your Cpanel. Let me know
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  • Profile picture of the author SageSound
    Deek, are you TRANSFERRING a domain from GoDaddy to HostGator?

    Or are you just redirecting the DNS to point to hosting on HG?

    (You said, "transferred a domain over from Go Daddy" which would usually mean you're moving it from one registrar to another. OTOH, "transferring the DNS" is something entirely different.)

    The DNS redirection should take something around 5 seconds, unless your ISP (whomever you're connected to the internet through) is quite a "distance" from the HG server and it needs to take a while to refresh its DNS caches..

    Technically speaking, it takes 72 hrs to update all DNS caches worldwide. Frequently it happens much faster.

    HTH
    -David
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  • Profile picture of the author erinwrites
    I've been using Hostgator for years and sometimes it just takes a while for everything to catch up. Try doing the live chat with customer service, I've always had good luck with them in the past.
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