During DNS zone propagation, you will see our notification "Your domain is not pointing to our name servers". The same happens if you have recently pointed a domain to Hostinger. This is because it can take up to 24 hours for a new domain to start working globally.

Before the domain is fully activated or pointing to Hostinger, most features (website, e-mail, FTP) will not work. In the meantime, you can start building your website and see changes immediately by using one of these features:

A Preview domain for your website will be created automatically during the new hosting order activation. You can access it during the adding website process by selecting View my website:

As well as from the Preview My Website button that will appear in the Details section of your panel:

The preview website link will look like this:

Where domain-tld is your domain name, including the extension with a dash (-) instead of a period (.). When opening your website on the browser from the preview link, a banner will indicate so to your visitors:

NOTES:

Another option is to edit your device's hosts file. All you need is to open your hosts file and add these lines:

Make sure to replace 185.185.185.185 with your hosting account’s IP address and domain.tld with your domain name. You can find your IP address at Websites → Manage → Details, in the Website details section:

A preview URL can also be obtained at any time with the SkipDNS tool using the following data:

Once the preview URL has been created, click on Open and select Proceed with the proxy in the next step.

That's it! Now you know three ways to see your website while the domain is propagating 😊