So I have new webhosting and I went to switch the name servers they say the new ones -- go daddy is my domain name hoster -- and the domain will go to the new host, but then go back to the old one. Is this normal? How can I fix it. Thank You ps. Im not sure if this goes here, but I couldn't find a better spot for it. I apologize if I missed a board where this goes. Thanks again.
Once you update the name server records at GoDaddy you have to wait upto 48 hours for the update to take effect across the whole internet, you're waiting for caches to clear and reread the data for the domain. As long as the names servers are listed correctly in the GoDaddy control panel and/or show correcting with a whois query then you just have to wait.
Yes it can take less time, in simple terms it depends on the time your ISP last queried the domain information, if they cached it 47 hours ago and the lifetime is 48 hours then after 1 hour you should be getting the new server.
Depends where you are in the world and which host you use but generally speaking it takes about 15 minutes changing nameservers on Godaddy.