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I can't see my site, what is wrong?
There could be problems with your ISP's DNS or a router between you and us that has a bad DNS record. If this happens, you can use a few tools to help us figure out the problem:

1) Open a Command Window (MS-DOS)
2) Type: ping yourdomain.com
3) Type: nslookup yourdomain.com
4) Type: tracert yourdomain.com

These three tools are usually included with MS-DOS and should give you some output similar to below if NOT working:

C:\>ping yourdomain.com

Pinging yourdomain.com [208.28.124.44] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 208.28.124.44:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms
C:\>nslookup yourdomain.com
Server:  ns1.dnsserver.com
Address:  208.28.124.1

*** ns1.dnsserver.com can't find yourdomain.com: Non-existent domain
C:\>tracert yourdomain.com
Tracing route to yourdomain.com [208.28.124.44] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1    <20 ms    <20ms    <20ms  ROUTER
2    <60 ms    <60ms    <50ms  ROUTER
3    <100 ms   <80ms    <90ms  208.28.124.44
4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
7     *        *        *     Request timed out.

These three tools should give you some output similar to below if working:

C:\>ping yourdomain.com
Pinging yourdomain.com [208.28.124.44] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.28.124.44: bytes=32 time=48ms  TTL=237
Reply from 208.28.124.44: bytes=32 time=52ms  TTL=237
Reply from 208.28.124.44: bytes=32 time=46ms  TTL=237
Reply from 208.28.124.44: bytes=32 time=50ms  TTL=237

Ping statistics for 208.28.124.44:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 48ms, Maximum =  52ms, Average =  50ms
C:\>nslookup yourdomain.com
Server:  ns1.dnsserver.com
Address:  208.28.124.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Server:    yourdomain.com
Address:    208.28.124.44
C:\>tracert yourdomain.com
Tracing route to yourdomain.com [208.28.124.44] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1    <20 ms    <20ms     <20ms  routername
2    <30 ms    <30ms     <30ms  routername
3    <50 ms    <50ms     <50ms  66.33.22.44
4    <60 ms    <60ms     <70ms  routername
.........
.........
........
15   <60 ms    <60ms     <70ms  yourdomain.com

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