How do I know if my domain name has been transferred? Print

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You will know that your domain name has been successfully transferred and your ISP (Internet Service Provider) has updated its DNS tables when you are able to FTP to your account using yourdomain.com as the hostname. Before the transfer is complete, when you try using yourdomain.com and the username/password we provided you with, it will not work. We have no control over how quickly your ISP updates its DNS tables.  Other people may be able to see your page before you do if their ISPs update more frequently.

Another way to test if it is transferred is to upload a test file to our servers and then see if you can access it with your domain name in the path. For example, if you upload a file called testing.html to our servers, if you can access it with the path http://www.yourdomainname.com/testing.html, you’ll know that your domain name has been transferred to our servers. (Make sure that you don’t have a file with the same name already uploaded on your former servers.)


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