Re-pointing domain names

[georgiek50]

I have just recently switched hosting companies and after setting up the new website I attempted to point my domain to the new IP address. It has been approx. 60 hours since I made the switch but still I am getting to the old site, and on a whois lookup it still has the old site details. What I did was:

1) Logged in to the registrar c/p of my domain and changed the nameservers to the ones of the new hosting company

2) Contacted the new hosting company to add the domain name to their DNS zone

Did I miss anything or all that is left to do now is wait a little while longer?

[Symbios]

That should do it, I'd repeat both parts to be on the safe side, you can also check what points where by running a traceroot on the IP and domain name;

in xp start >> run

tracert ##.###.##.###
tracert www.#####.##

[georgiek50]

Thanks for the confirmation...I did it again to be sure as you suggested. Unfortunatelly the traceroute still initially resolves the domain to the old IP so I guess it's just a waiting period for the new nameserver config to propagate...

[georgiek50]

Strange...It has been approx. 100 hours now and still no switch. Is it possible that somehow my current hosting company is not letting this change occur?

I would contact them directly but they have scr*wed me over in the past few months on several occassions and I don't trust them to contact them on this.

[Edwin]

If you keep testing from your own machine, it's possible that your ISP "caches" your old IP info longer. I had that happen to me - the DNS had changed over for pretty much the whole web (as evidenced by my site stats) but it took me 4 days longer before I could go to the site directly at its new location.

Try DNSReport to get a DNS check from a remote location or The-Cloak to access the site via a 3rd party proxy.

[georgiek50]

I wish that were the case but apparently the problem seems to be at my registrar because although they list the new nameservers in my domain manager control panel, the rest of the internet and all DNS tools I have tried list the old nameservers. The site stats are limited to Googlebot and no visitors as well. That is an odity though because Google has crawled the entire site and the temporary domain I am using is not public nor has any links pointing to it...very strange.