If you are going to transfer your website from one web hosting provider to another, then your old DNS (Domain Name Server) records are still cached for a given time by your ISP (and all other DNS servers around the globe). How long it takes for you until your domain resolves (also known as DNS propagation) to the new location can be figured out by following the steps outlined below:

• In Microsoft Windows go to your “Start Menu”.
• Choose “Run …”.
• Type within the text field “cmd”.
• Magically a black box appears, at the command prompt type the following:
  • nslookup [enter]
  • set debug [enter]
  • www.yourdomain.tld [enter] <= Change this to the domain you are moving from webhost

The answer we are looking for can be found under the headline …. “ANSWERS” just below the headline “QUESTIONS”.
We are specifically interested in the value TTL (Time To Live). These are the seconds it takes before your ISP (Internet Service Provider) will refresh the DNS records that belongs to your domain.

Below an illustrating picture:

Propagation is the process by which name servers are made aware of the changes that you make to your domain name with your registrar (the company you purchased your domain name with).  This process can take between 24 and 72 hours.

Why does this process take so long?

DNS propagation takes a bit of time because the "synchronization" is happening amongst hundreds of thousands of servers.  The process may seem to take too long but it is happening quite rapidly on a pretty large scale.

Please know that this is under the control of the registry, and DS-Hosting Solutions does not have any abilities to make this happen faster.

However, eNom has developed a revolutionary way to update DNS settings. This allows the user to make DNS changes that will apply within approximately 4 seconds.

Compare that to the "12 to 24 hours" needed for most domain registrars or the "several days" by some ISP’s.

And since DS-Hosting Solutions has partnered with one of the worlds biggest registrar, eNom, you will make advantage of these Real-time DNS updates if we register your domain name
 

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