I’ve met this several times in my career. It is hard to explain, but this the only working solution I found for such issues. Let me tell you about the situation:

You’ve registered a new domain and pointed to correct DNS servers. Everything seems to be nice: an account at your hosting is created too. You’re sitting and waiting for DNS to start resolving…

But after two or three days your fresh domain is still not accessible. You’re trying to contact hosting support and domain registrar support, but both are telling you that everything is set up and you just have to wait. But you may wait as long as you want; if your domain does not resolve within 2-3 days, it won’t resolve at all. And you have to do a simple trick that worked for me.

You need to have a hosting service to create an account for your lost domain. You won’t need it more than several hours, so you may just ask one of your friends who have an account with unlimited domains to host your domain for 3 hours.

All you need is to create an account for your domain and change DNS to another server, then you should wait until your domain resolves. Once it starts responging, you should change your DNS back to previous values. I can almost guarantee you it will be resolving to new DNS in just some minutes.

Don’t ask me why does this work as I really have no idea. Just like Windows reboot – often helps but you cannot explain why. :)

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