I bought a custom domain for my site (“Site A”) through Netlify. Then I built a new website (“Site B”) and I like it better than the first site. So I decided I want the domain to point to Site B now, not Site A. I removed the domain from Site A and added it to Site B, but when I go to the domain, I…

@technicaltidbits Welcome to the Netlify community. If you can see your site in a private window, you are probably experiencing a local caching issue. And by the way, if you have private information, one of the last places you want to put it is on the Internet in a web page. Just saying.

@gregraven In the hours since posting this I realized that I probably worded this wrong. I have my first name and a link to my Twitter account on my page, that’s all. How do I address the caching issue?

You’ll have to clear your browser cache for starters. If you’re on VPN, that might have a cache, too.

I’ve done that with Firefox but I still see the old site. I asked someone else to view my site and they still see the old site, too. They have to do a force reload to pull up the new site. I noticed that the DNS record’s value for my domain still points to the Netlify subdomain for Site A…could thi…

This is what I see [Screen Shot 2020-05-22 at 8.15.36 AM] reverent-joliot-7af216.netlify.app is the Netlify subdomain for site A. I thought this would update once I removed the domain from Site A and added it to Site B

So I’m clear, technicaltidbits.net is your custom domain name? It used to point to a Netlify subdomain that was NOT reverent-joliot-etc? You now want it to point to reverent-joliot-…? The Netlify DNS servers for reverent-joliot-… are dns1.p08.nsone.net and etc? These Netlify DNS servers are diff…

Yes, technicaltidbits.net is my custom domain name. I want it to point to awesome-benz-5a350b.netlify.app . This is the subdomain for Site B, the site that I want the custom domain to point to. reverent-joliot…is the subdomain for Site A, the site that I no longer want the custom domain to point to…

Have you tried deleting everything and starting over? It seems you could also have simply put the new files in the existing Netlify subdomain, but presumably you have a reason for not doing that.

Nope, but I think I will. I didn’t know how to put the new files in the subdomain; like I said, still learning about all this. Thanks for your help though

Thanks for chiming in, @gregraven ! @technicaltidbits , did you get things figured out? Just so you know (and there’s really no way you would know this without us telling you), the NETLIFY record that was pointing to your old subdomain did change to point to the new subdomain. It’s a confusing thing …

Do DNS records update automatically when you add a domain you own to a Netlify site?

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jen May 23, 2020, 11:47pm 13

That is weird! Could you please send an x-nf-request-id?

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Do DNS records update automatically when you add a domain you own to a Netlify site?

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