How much time does it take to hook up a new custom domain and for it to propogate?

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Hi team. In your experience does it take a while to hook up a domain to a studio.

I have added A records and cname for my domain and it seems to have taken but when I click through on the share button I get nada.

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It shouldn’t take long. At worst 24Hrs

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It will hook-up in different places at different times. If you want to follow along then I use a free app https://www.whatsmydns.net/ . You can also check in different areas by using a VPN.

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Depending on your DNS and domain provider, it should tell you where it is up and running.

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No more than 24 hours!

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It typically takes a minute or two. Most of the time, the problem is DNS caching. Like, if you do it on your desktop and then open a new tab and try to connect to the domain right away, it’ll give you an error or maybe a parking page. Your TTL (Time-to-Live) setting says how long before the cache expires and it gets refreshed. But if you wait a couple of minutes then open a browser on a tablet or phone that’s not going through your home WiFi (ie, a device with a different DNS route), it will probably come right up, while your first one continues to return the same thing. TTLs are often set to 3600, which is 1 hour in seconds. Sometimes it’s a lot longer; it depends on the registrar’s defaults.

In this case, if you register the domain on your desktop then try to connect it online to something right away, before it has propagated, you’ll get the same error as you’d get on the desktop. And you’ll be forced to wait for the TTL timeout to expire before it will refresh OVER THERE.

So in general, you want to register the domain first, wait 5 minutes, then try to connect to the domain somehow. Don’t touch it ANYWHERE! Just forget about it for 5-10 minutes. It’s usually live really quickly, but if it’s not when you try, then you’re going to have to wait for the TTL period to expire before you can access it on that connection.

NOTE: It’s NOT THE COMPUTER!!! It’s all the way up-stream to the router that polled the registrar’s DNS server! If you have cable or home internet to do the registration, then test it with your phone or tablet WITHOUT WiFi first. If you use WiFi, it’s going to go through the same route as your desktop and give you the same results. Or use a VPN. Or try your neighbor’s WiFi. Or go to Starbucks. Or call a friend. Every DNS router between the registrar and your computer will have its cache updated when you make that request, and it won’t change until the TTL period has expired.

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