I just love it when a new domain purchase works as beautiful as it worked tonight.
This experience was with Namecheap.com.
What had happened was that sadly I'd forgotten to renew a dot.tk domain of mine that I'd had since 2008. I was three days late. Then hoped to luck out with registering for it again, and this time round dot.tk wanted me to pay for it. So decided to go for a dot.net instead.
My purchase at Namecheap went through immediately as it usually does thanks to Paypal.
Then after I changed the name servers at Namecheap I held my breath for a little while. How long is it going to take the DNS to propagate? 24 hours or more? Or immediately?
Then navigated to cPanel and created a new dot.net add on domain. Moved the files of the old dot.tk site to dot.net, got rid of the old dot.tk add on domain.
And *drum roll*
It worked instantly!![Yahoo]( "Yahoo")
Checked with DNS Inspect and it scored a beautiful "A"![Clapping]( "Clapping")
This experience was with Namecheap.com.
What had happened was that sadly I'd forgotten to renew a dot.tk domain of mine that I'd had since 2008. I was three days late. Then hoped to luck out with registering for it again, and this time round dot.tk wanted me to pay for it. So decided to go for a dot.net instead.
My purchase at Namecheap went through immediately as it usually does thanks to Paypal.
Then after I changed the name servers at Namecheap I held my breath for a little while. How long is it going to take the DNS to propagate? 24 hours or more? Or immediately?
Then navigated to cPanel and created a new dot.net add on domain. Moved the files of the old dot.tk site to dot.net, got rid of the old dot.tk add on domain.
And *drum roll*
It worked instantly!
Checked with DNS Inspect and it scored a beautiful "A"
