My web is still not up it still says awaiting netlify dns

[Melvin]

Hi @gdgsbnz185476,

Thanks for following up.

I’m showing that you have a DNS Zone here, however the DNS Zone is not using Netlify’s name servers that are mentioned here. The name servers being used are secureserver.net:

dig teacherrating.com NS +trace | tail -n 6
ATS49347N4S3MLVA0V5AMK40S9EPHQTG.com. 900 IN NSEC3 1 1 0 - ATS4C2C23KIN9BNGI6AP0PRP3CC7FH9M  NS DS RRSIG
ATS49347N4S3MLVA0V5AMK40S9EPHQTG.com. 900 IN RRSIG NSEC3 13 2 900 20241124065019 20241117054019 29942 com. fGYgf4JH97T+cFeXeVUvFYjkAGjiuf8FgpJM45Vxpb4RlG2swPXFbU9c mFhcMkWdEQR5N3ANMBY895c1UHOA3A==
;; Received 461 bytes from 192.48.79.30#53(j.gtld-servers.net) in 66 ms

;; Received 69 bytes from 173.201.77.10#53(park20.secureserver.net) in 39 ms

This means that the Netlify DNS Zone is inactive. We have a Support Guide that explains how to detect inactive DNS Zones, the problems they cause and how to fix them:

[Support Guide] How to detect and fix inactive Netlify DNS zones

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - June, 2024 What is an “inactive Netlify DNS zone”? First, it would help to define the term “DNS zone”. Quoting wikipedia, it says: A DNS zone is any distinct, contiguous portion of the domain name space in the Domain Name System (DNS) for which administrative responsibility has been delegated to a single manager. To paraphrase, a DNS zone is a collection of all the DNS records for a production domain. When you add production domains to Netlify DNS we cre…

Probably the easiest solution would be to configure the External DNS configuration mentioned here:

Configure external DNS for a custom domain

You would create an A Record for teacherrating.com that points to 75.2.60.5. For www.teacherrating.com you would create a CNAME Record that points to teacherrating.netlify.app. You would then delete the Netlify DNS Zone here.

Let us know if you have any questions.