Administering an ISP Installation

Now that you’ve set up your domain site, you need to make sure it’s running.

To verify that your site is running

Ping the IP address of the domain, using the Ping utility at the command prompt.
Run the NSLookup utility at the command prompt in order to find the domain name. First, type the command with the www prefix in order to see if the secondary domain name has been registered. Then, run the command again without the prefix in order to see if the top-level domain name has been registered.
For example, at the command prompt type:
nslookup domain.com
And then type:
nslookup domain.com
This step verifies that there is a DNS entry.
Note The DNS entry might not be active for one or two days after the Internet domain name has been registered.
As a final check, view the home page in Microsoft® Internet Explorer.