I bought a domain name at GoDaddy and hosting at Dreamhost but the first doesn’t work!

nameserverweb-hosting

I added the Dreamhost's nameservers like 12 hours ago to:

I entered to the following panel:

Nameservers -> Set Nameservers (I have specific nameservers for my domains)

and added Dreamhost's nameservers liek this:

Nameserver 1: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
Nameserver 2: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
Nameserver 3: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM

So now in the admin panel I see this:

Nameservers
Nameservers:  (Last Update 2/10/2011)
NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
NS3.DREAMHOST.COM

But I get this when I run the analysis tools:

Attention Required! There are critical issues
Accessing Your Web Site
Accessing Your Web Site
Properly configuring your domain name and hosting account ensures that visitors can access your site.

Did I do something wrong or I have to wait 24 to 48 hours?

Dreamhost does display my page because I can access the other domain name I bought together with the hosting.

(By the way, if everyone uses the same nameserver, how will go GoDaddy know which is the hosting space that I purchased among all others)?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:

My Dreamhost domain is http://alexchen.info/

My GoDaddy domain (the one I want to use ) is http://alexchen.co/

Best Answer

Just to let you know, there are records, and they are propagating. Firstly the domain registration and delegation of the nameservers is OK:

[madhatta@www ~]$ whois alexchen.co @whois.nic.co
[Querying whois.nic.co]
[whois.nic.co]
Domain Name:                                 ALEXCHEN.CO
[...]
Name Server:                                 NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
Name Server:                                 NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
Name Server:                                 NS3.DREAMHOST.COM

Secondly, at least one nameserver at dreamhost is serving an A record for you:

[madhatta@www ~]$ dig alexchen.co @ns1.dreamhost.com
[...]
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alexchen.co.        14400   IN  A   173.236.220.66

So that much is working. It seems to me that if you put up the alexchen.co site on 173.236.220.66, and the webserver there is configured to serve it, everything should work. I must also add that, when I point a web browser at alexchen.co, I see nice, shiny wordpress site looking back at me. What do you see?

What interests me is that your old domain is on a different address:

[madhatta@kiev systems]$ dig alexchen.info
[...]
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alexchen.info.      14400   IN  A   173.236.217.156

I don't know the details of what you're trying to do, but is that what you expected? If so, can you confirm that you're still having the problems, and they weren't - as others have sensibly suggested - propagation delays?

You say you're on ubuntu, which should have both the tools I've used above, dig and whois; they're invaluable for trying to debug DNS issues.

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