I bought a new domain name, how do I get my site to show up?

If you have a website and your email hosted with us, we would recommend that you point the name servers (known NS record) to our domain "name servers".

The Design Services Name Servers are as follows:
N1.DESSERV.COM
N2.DESSERV.COM

Once you have pointed the name servers to our IP address, give our support department a call at 916-226-6723 and choose option 1, and we will set up the recieving end on our servers so we can catch the traffic that comes from your new domain name.

At this time we will also ask you about any email addresses you want setting up on the new domain name.

Usually the website will appear first within just a few minutes after we add the new domain to our servers, but this can take up to 24 hours in some rarely seen cases.
Email takes a little longer. It takes approximatly 6-8 hours for email to propagate, and this can take up to 72 hours on a newly registered domain name.

The reason this is not instant is that for each domain name that is registered, the name has to be matched up with the IP address of the server it is pointing to. See our article on Domain Names for further information on how they work.

With each website you have hosted with us, you can have up to 100 domain names point to the website.

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