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May Lye
10,505 Pointsweb hosting problem !!!!!!!!!!
I have purchased my domain (.com) together with a 'Gmail for Work' for US12 per yr. I guess the fee is only for the Gmail. Then i went to host my domain through freehosting.com which is free. Then i purchased a web host package from webhostingforstudents.com. But i m having problem to transfer my dns to my domain...can anyone help???
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Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 PointsI suggest you contact your domain costumer service. Usually you have to do some changes there...change your third party DNS servers to point to the ones of web hosting for students, I believe. Depending on your domain providers they might have instructions on their site on how to do it as well.
Steve Kranz
1,128 PointsYou probably received an email from Webhostingforstudents.com when you signed up with them that contains the Nameservers that you need to use for your website. Otherwise, you should be able to log in to your account at Webhostingforstudents.com and find that information. Once you get those nameservers, go back to the site where you registered your domain, log in to your account there and find the spot to enter in the nameservers you got from Webhostingforstudents.com. After you enter that information, it might take 24 hours or so for the nameservers to become active across the Internet so that you can enter your domain name into a browser and have your site show up. Also, if you did all that and it still doesn't seem to point to your website at Webhosting forstudents.com (and is still pointing to the freehosting site) it probably means that the computer you are using to access your website hasn't updated the new DNS information. If that is the case you can open a command prompt on your local computer, and type ipconfig /flushdns. If you need more specific instructions on that for your computer's operating system (Windows, Mac, etc.), just Google "clear dns cache" and you should be able to find what you're looking for.