A Week after changing nameservers most users are still getting old site

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I changed the nameservers for our client 7 days ago – their domain registrar is doteasy.com and I've spoken with them several times over the last few days. I understand that nameservers need to propagate but I don't see why this has taken so long. Doteasy just tells me there is nothing they can do.

When I check the propagation of the nameservers on sites like:

http://www.intodns.com/
https://www.whatsmydns.net/

I still see the old NS ns57.1and1.com and ns58.1and1.com and the old A record IP 74.208.118.58

Our site uptowngreenville.com should have the nameservers ns1144.websitewelcome.com and ns1145.websitewelcome.com and A record IP 192.185.122.201

We have never had a clients website take longer than 24 hours to be live/fully propagated.

I do notice when I run a check on http://www.intodns.com/ that the SOA Primary nameserver: ns58.1and1.com how can I change this?

Best Answer

The problem is that websitewelcome.com effectively delegated the domain to 1and1:

$ dig NS uptowngreenville.com @ns1144.websitewelcome.com
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
uptowngreenville.com.   86400   IN  NS  ns58.1and1.com.
uptowngreenville.com.   86400   IN  NS  ns57.1and1.com.

Also weird, when you trace the resolution, the upstream resolver gives

uptowngreenville.com.   172800  IN  NS  ns1143.websitewelcome.com.
uptowngreenville.com.   172800  IN  NS  ns1144.websitewelcome.com.

the former of which is unresponsive. That may be a stale cache, though.

FWIW, your new DNS provider does respond with the correct A record

$ dig uptowngreenville.com @ns1143.websitewelcome.com
...
uptowngreenville.com.   14400   IN  A   192.185.122.201

but as long as it serves wrong NS records, that won't help you I fear.

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