Hoping this is an easy one...its bout a DNS problem

[krofunk]

A friend of mine wanted his own custom domain to use with [a lesser] hosting company. He purchased that and at first had it pointed to his blogger account.

When he tried to move the domain to his new host it was unsuccessful and when you attempt to go the URL you see a Google 404 page the IP is 216.239.32.21 so it is Google for sure.

Now he gave me the login for his blogger account and I can say that all traces of his domain have been removed that end, I can also say that his name servers have been changed with his DNS...no luck.

I changed his name servers to x10's today to see if i could add his domain to my hosting however this has also failed.

a Whois will show that the name servers are correct for x10 http://who.is/whois/ragon.co.uk/ however it still points to 216.239.32.21.

Do Google park domains forever or something? or am I missing something, I am aware these things can take time however this has now been 2 days.

I am aware this post doesnt make an awful lot of sense but this really has me confused

[Smith6612]

Did you park/add his domain at your account? Need to do that or else the domain won't go anywhere despite having the correct nameservers. Right now I can't even resolve the domain to an IP.

[krofunk]

I added it in cpanel this afternoon.

[krofunk]

Hmmm and now it works. I guess it was taking longer than usual. Odd though, this normally takes hours..not days.

[essellar]

I used to tell my clients that it took 48 hours to ripple through -- it's usually faster, but I've seen it take a couple of days on more than one occasion so I give the pessimistic estimate. A pleasant surprise is a much better customer reaction than the "what are you doing to my business" rant one gets when promising more than a sticky local DNS repeater can deliver.

[krofunk]

I think that will have to be my policy from now on as well. Thanks for the advice