Cleared all of my cache but still seeing old website

It may be that the DNS changes haven't yet propagated to the DNS server you are using.

You can try using a different DNS server temporarily until the changes have spread everywhere.

To do this:

  • Go to Network Connections in the Control Panel
  • Double click on the connection that is being used
  • Click Properties
  • Double click Internet Protocol Version 4
  • Set the new server addresses:

screenshot DNS servers

The one I have set in my example is one of Google's DNS servers - 8.8.8.8.


Your browser may no longer be caching the old site, but there could be multiple servers between you and the wider web that are erroneously caching the site.

What IP address to you get if you use PING or NSLOOKUP on that domain name? Old or new?

If you want to cheat and avoid (rather than solve) the problem, you can add an entry to your hosts file, which will force your PC to go to the new server.