I open my website from my cpanel and it says that the domain does not exist. The page says I can claim the domain from x10 so i just tried to make a new account with the old domain and it says the domain is in use! Someone please help me!
I open my website from my cpanel and it says that the domain does not exist!
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This can happen due to DNS caching; if you had tried to view the domain before it was registered, your DNS provider (usually your ISP) may have saved the DNS result for that page, which points to our placeholder "Does Not Exist" server. Your local PC may have also done this; you can often fix it by opening a Windows command prompt and running "ipconfig /flushdns" without the quotes, but if your DNS provider cached the result it may take 24-72 hours (usually not more than 24) for the old result to "expire" and begin pointing to the correct server.
You also weren't able to re-create a new account with the old domain as you had submitted an account cancellation, but to give time to revert that decision, that takes 72 hours. You should be able to login and remove the cancellation request if you'd like to try the DNS clearing step above, to see if that makes the page load before your DNS provider "expires" the saved record they have.
You also weren't able to re-create a new account with the old domain as you had submitted an account cancellation, but to give time to revert that decision, that takes 72 hours. You should be able to login and remove the cancellation request if you'd like to try the DNS clearing step above, to see if that makes the page load before your DNS provider "expires" the saved record they have.
http://OsgoodeCasualBaseball.x10host.com does it work for you?
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That one does, as does the one currently linked to your simpleg3 forum account (although that one tells me it's suspended); some time ago I did reconfigure my routers to not use my ISP's DNS servers though, and had set them up to use OpenDNS, which I've noticed tends to see our IP address changes in minutes rather than hours.
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