How long does a website take to go live after the domain is changed?

[bouncingpom]

Hi,

I've changed the domain from a BC to my own purchased. I have followed all the instructions to change domain names, however for some reason my redirected domain refuses to work.

Is there a normal delay on this or is there a way I can get this checked?

Cheers

Stuart

[Sidney Mitchell]

Hi Stuart,

There is propagation that may incur which can take a few hours to up to 48 hours which is normal. 

If still having issues with your domain please provide the url so we can verify your DNS settings.

Kind regards,

-Sidney

[bouncingpom]

Hi Sidney,

Thanks for the reply.

It's very hit and miss at the moment, I've had several people saying it's ok and others saying it's not working properly. I've tried myself a couple of times and it worked, but has seemed to have stopped as it's coming up with an error. 

Will this settle down?

Kind regards

Stuart

[Liam Dilley]

Hey Stuart,

Yep, it will.

Happens.

You have the ISP Domain caching systems, some have longer to try and help with perfomance, often if their services are not as robust as others. Some are really quick.

Then you have cross country where if you set up say a Australian Domain this could change same day while other countries still have yet to catch up.

Takes longer with a .com in general as well.

Another factor can be peroples personal domain caching, this is really only an issue when someone has viewed say the development URL often before a site goes live. This is why you have flushdns controls in Windows and Mac through the command prompt and terminal to clear on a machine.

Always more to this web stuff then people realise hey