Short question is. I have a domain name mydomain.com, we have a company website hosted on an IIS server 2003 configuration. Going to the address bar and typing www.mydomain.com will show my website properly. Typing mydomain.com into the same address bar will return an under construction website that seems to be hosted on my webserver.
My domain name is hosted by Network Solutions, and I think I have it configured correctly using their advanced DNS services. In their settings I have www.mydomain.com, * and @ also pointed to the ip address of my webserver.
On my webserver itself using the IIS manager, under the Web Site, and Web Site Identification. I have configured both www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com configured to work on the IP address on the webserver.
I am hosting 4 different websites on my IIS server, all the other sites use prefixes other than www, an example is mail.mydomain.com and a couple of others. None of them show an under construction page as their default homepage. I am really at a loss as to why it would show an under construction page, especially since it seems to be pointing to the correct server.
The reason this is such a big deal is because when you search for my company on google, the link there is for mydomain.com and by clicking on the link it shows under construction which is really quite embarrassing.
Thanks in advance for any help and if there are further questions let me know.
I think your DNS settings are fine.
Both www.altusenergy.com and altusenergy.com resolve to the website for me.
This is more than likely a problem with your internal DNS server, that is serving the IP address to your local systems.
To the outside world you are good.
How recently did you set up the DNS? If it was very recently, you may be getting cached zone files. Do you know what the TTL is for them? Are you sure you updated the serial number?
If "altusenergy.com" is indeed "mydomain.com" then it resolves to a web site fine for me. Perhaps you have a different mapping inside your domain, which is common if you're also using domain.com as your AD DNS suffix?
When web browsers pull requests they normally perform a 'GET /index.html'. Each site should have its own index.html or index.htm. I would check to make sure that your settings are correct for these. You can specify defaults in your IIS snap-in.
That's what network solutions does to everything you haven't registered with them. Check out -> http://dude.chartright.us/ for instance...