Website receiving DNS Lookup errors in other countries

Dear All, I’m looking for help with my website, which I have designed in Weebly. My issue is I am trying to display my paintings on the website in a way that makes them look visually impressive but also I do not want to go above 500px for fear of people using the images of my work and also I do not like to watermark my images as I feel this distracts from my art.

I used to have a website that was a black theme but have moved to a new white and clean design, but I’m really struggling to display my images in a way that is eye catching.

Any help would be much appreciated

here is my site http://www.alanmhuntwildlifeartist.co.uk/

Welcome to the forums, @info2108.

At the moment, your link is giving me a “Server not found” error.

Just clicked on link and seemed to work for me?

I’m getting “Server Not Found” also. Are you sure you’re not looking at a cached version of the site on your local machine?

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One thing I do with my photos is to add a 1 pixel black border around the image as I thinks it makes the photo stand out from the page.

One thing I do not like on your site is the social media icons cover up the links when you scroll down the page. You have to scroll up again to get to the ones on the far right.

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I’m still getting the “Server not found” error (on a different device). As it seems I’m not alone, I think it would be worth looking into that. It doesn’t matter how good your site is, if potential visitors can’t see it. :slight_smile:

Thank you will that!

Were you able to click on the link and get through to the website no problem?

I seem to have no issues but others seem to have problems?

It may be that I am new to this forum and links were temporarily disabled?!

Thank you rubble

It isn’t only the link here, same for the link from the Google search results page. I tried earlier today and again just now with my iPad and a few browsers and every time it’s “cannot open the page because the server cannot be found”

I just now used an online “find IP of website” to see if it would load by the IP but got

Error determining IP Addresses for www.alanmhuntwildlifeartist.co.uk/

Is the site new and the name hasn’t propagated yet?

I’d also tried visiting via whois.domaintools.com (mainly to check the URL was correct and there wasn’t a typo - that’s happened before). The site link from that page gave me the same result.

From that page:

3,350 days old
Created on 2008-11-23
Expires on 2019-11-23
Updated on 2017-11-29

IP Address 199.34.228.45 - 10,678 other sites hosted on this server


No, it’s definitely a link. The problem is not at this end.

I get through every time using the link. Just tried in a different browser as well without any problems.

Weird.

From isitup.org:

I had this problem before and it was the I.P. address my router was using that was causing the problem. I changed the I.P. address and it worked fine.

Interesting that you are having the same issue I wonder how many others are?

And how do I fix this???

I don’t know of any way to check. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with location: Rubble and I are both UK-based, while Mittineague and WebMachine are not.

Again, I don’t know. Have you tried contacting Weebly support? I know nothing about how their system works, but the domaintools.com information is showing this:

Domain Status: Registered And Parked Or Redirected

whereas I’d expect it to be showing

Domain Status: Registered And Active Website

Google Webmaster is showing no errors

and seems fine when I run it through pingdom

It’s just confirming what we already know - that some people can access it and some can’t.

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just tried this tool and in some locations it’s saying DNS lookup error

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Have you tried this suggestion from @TechnoBear

Did you get your domain name from Weebly as well? If not there could be a problem with the DNS settings

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Yes so I spoke to weebly they initially said everything was fine their end but when they started digging they said there is a problem with the dns andI should contact godaddy.

So contacted godaddy and they said the same thing that everything was fine so he passed it over to the technical team who said it was fine but when they started running tests they found a problem there end.

and unlikely anything I had done my end.

They have now said give it 24hrs and it should be resolved.

And would have affected people visiting the website and emailing me!!!

Now I’m like thinking how blinking long has it been like this??

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Just want to say a big thank you to the guys on this site for flagging it up, because I would not have known otherwise!

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People usually uses the default DNS from their ISP for domain lookups, maybe some doesn’t have the record for your site yet.

Check the tool’s outcome with other DNS servers in your connection settings:
https://www.lifewire.com/free-and-public-dns-servers-2626062

The link works for me, I use OpenDNS.