You forgot about IPv6 (AAAA entries). Maybe that's the issue?
And dumb question: Just because the website doesn't work doesn't mean it's DNS. When you ping the domain, what IP do you get?
What records do you have in the dns? You can’t ping domain.com unless you have something like an @ record which creates a record for the domain itself. In your dns if you have a www record, try ping www.domain.com
can you specify which IP the @ record is supposed to point to?
You can google it.. the root domain record is an A record that is the ip address you want to ping
Apparently, only the A entry is necessary, as the provided IP will perform the redirect .
When I try to ping the domain I get ping: cannot resolve my-website.com: Unknown host. Could that be a sign that perhaps it will take some more time to propagate?
Well if it didn’t propagate properly it’d still point to squarespace, which it also doesn’t do. Are there still AAAA entries that haven’t been removed yet maybe? DNS does properly function without ipv6, granted that there’s no entries for it and the ip address used for the A entry is in fact an ipv4 one.
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