Considering the amount of promotion (avatar icons etc.) it seems silly not to have the site up and running... ...whos the owner?
DNS issue is beyond my control. And its really silly that sometime old host contents are displayed though severity of this problem is going down with time. I have noted on avg 100-120 visitors are displayed old host contents for backlinkwatch and this figure is high for digpagerank. Its really frustrating.
So i presume the dns issue relates to your domain provider? why not simply move domain providers, get the dns settings changed - then at least it will work... you're potentially losing visitors every single day!
Agreed. It is working here as well. Like stated they probably were updating or moving their site to another host and or server. Or their host and or server were down as well. Either way its up now.
Why i should contact domain registrar? When i have already changed DNS settings and i have access to my account. This is not domain registrar issue. Its something on global servers or different ISP's cache problem or something other which i don't know.
See i would have thought that if it were a global issue then there would be the standard browser timeout/load message. What is getting shown (although working now) is a specific error page... hence indicating that problem is potentially hosting or registra related?
Its not 'specific' error page. Actually it hits the previous host which then displays the message from old host that this site doesn't host there or this kind of message. Problem is that why your browser goes to that 'old ip address' for retrieving the page it should go for the ip address which is directed by DNS settings at domain registrar and already there for 9 months. Why it goes to old ip and where it is still cached?? DNS propagation usually takes few hours but in this case its more than 9 months.
The registrar has nothing to do with it. The new hosting has nothing to do with it. It's simply, somewhere, someone set a DNS update time to a VERY high number, so that some DNS servers do not propagate the information properly. I've never seen a DNS change take over 9 months unless the host sets the update time very high. Some hosts do this, in the zone file that holds the information that is propagated, and update time is set. This can be set to a very high number, so once a DNS server gets that in their cache, they do not re-check it for a very long time. So some DNS servers are still pointing to netfirms. Editing your hosts file will make it resolve correctly. It's not any local problem, just that the afflicted DNS servers are obeying what is probably a very long update time. Mong, Have you tried contacting netfirms and asking them what the hell is in the zone file?
^^ I also think it some problem on old host. No, i have not contacted them. But I'll contact them now and ask to assist in this issue. Thanks for your input