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Godaddy probably updates their dns system with new entries once a day or twice a day... you'll very likely have to wait until then...
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GoDaddy updates their DNS very quickly. I have had domain changes become visible within minutes with them.
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Everah wrote:GoDaddy updates their DNS very quickly. I have had domain changes become visible within minutes with them.
Hmm.. If that's the case, then I am not sure what could be delaying it. Try using a different dns server (4.2.2.1/4.2.2.2 or opendns)... though I'm not seeing the subdomain either...
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Everah wrote:GoDaddy updates their DNS very quickly. I have had domain changes become visible within minutes with them.
The TTL of enigmaportal.com (it is served by GoDaddy, right?) is 86400 sec. - that is 1 day ... So if you have made changes they would populate over the world DNSs for 1 day (worst case). it is not only about updating the GoDaddy DNS itself.
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GoDaddy lets you add subdomains under their virtual hosting control, not associated with DNS at all. It should take only a few minutes or hours to have a subdomain working if you follow their directions carefully. I have found them to be extremely responsive and helpful if you call them by telephone. It is not a toll-free number, so it might cost you some telephone tolls, but they are very knowledgeable and responsive.
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Well, I have another account at a different host. Is it possible to add the namerservers of that host to godaddy and then add the subdomain? WIll it work that way?
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legend986 wrote:Well, I have another account at a different host. Is it possible to add the namerservers of that host to godaddy and then add the subdomain? WIll it work that way?
I'm getting confused -- where is your actual server? That is, where are the HTML and other files for the domain and the subdomain?
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Ok ok.. I'm sorry... My main files are at http://www.abchosting.com in an account: myaccount.abchosting.com. This hosting has nothing to do with Godaddy's hosting offers. I just purchased a domain from godaddy and used the nameservers of abchosting.com. This is where all my files are stored.

Off late, I took up another hosting, xyzhosting.com to make a mirror site. What I'm asking is whether I can put up the nameservers of xyzhosting too in the nameservers listing at godaddy...
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2 DNSs for a domain are enough - there should be no reason you'll want to do this.

BTW - you can have multple IPs for a same domain name. Resolving by the queried DNS is done in round-robin way. So, you'll have some sort of load balancing.
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Tried everything... Not getting anything... I guess I'll wait till my host replies back :(
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This may have to be done in the DNS level, not the domain name level.
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I guess so... Hope my host replies fast atleast now... THere's some problem from his side I think otherwise he wouldn't take so long to reply. Anyways thanks everyone for helping out this far..
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