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Nope its nothing so techy at all though thanks for your input!
It seems that I had a problem with my paypal account resulting in an unpaid
product with mentioned website so I was barred until it is resolved - which
it is.
So there you go MARLIE - check you haven't got any outstanding payments to
DSD. Problem solved.
K

Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
Hey there - same thing has happened to me this week too!

That could be a symptom of DNS problem along with a good-intentioned
but non-standard service from your ISP when such a problem occurs.

E.g. check with nslookup if your DNS has a lookup for that sitename.
Note also that it may be an alias of its domain name which you would
also have to have a lookup for:

<nslookup>
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: digiscrapdesigner.com
Address: 70.86.28.230
Aliases: www.digiscrapdesigner.com
</nslookup>

In addition you could use nslookup in its interactive mode with debug set
to see how this lookup is actually done by your DNS.

I am going crazy
trying to figure it out - I just need my fix of digiscrapdesigner forums and
tutorials! Please, please, if you managed to sort anything out - can you
help me?

Can you ping -n 1 both the sitename and its domain name?
It's just the lookups that you are interested in. Though, as it happens
both names do respond to the pings:

<cmd_output>
F:\>ping -n 1 www.digiscrapdesigner.com

Pinging digiscrapdesigner.com [70.86.28.230] with 32 bytes of data:

F:\>ping -n 1 digiscrapdesigner.com

Pinging digiscrapdesigner.com [70.86.28.230] with 32 bytes of data:
</cmd_output>

Then check with ipconfig /displaydns that you have an A (Host) record
cached for the domain name for its IP address:

<displaydns>
digiscrapdesigner.com
----------------------------------------
Record Name . . . . . : digiscrapdesigner.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 14016
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 70.86.28.230
</displaydns>

If none of these lookups are working for you, you should notify your ISP
about the problem with their DNS and add a record to your HOSTS file
as a temporary workaround:

<HOSTS>
70.86.28.230 www.digiscrapdesigner.com
</HOSTS>

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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Many thanks
Karuna
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