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Hi there I'm new to the forums so bear with me =)

My friend just created his own domain. The first time I accessed it, it was just a simple "hi" message because he had no webpage up yet. Now he has a web page up, and even after deleting my cookies, clearing my cache, rebooting everything...I still only get the webpage with the "hi" popping up insteda of the new one he put up. Everybody else when they click on his URL gets the proper web page to display but me.

He thinks somehow IE is just remembering the old cache and won't delete it. How do I fix this? I would have thought a simple wiping of the cache would do it. This is getting frustrating.

Thanks in advance for any advice =)

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A few focused diagnostics will isolate why only ’s IE is showing the old “hi” page while others see the updated site. and covered a couple of quick checks; the steps below look at the network and system layers that commonly hold stale content even after browser clearing.

First, confirm name resolution and any local overrides. Run these from a command prompt and compare the IP returned to what friends see:

nslookup example.com
nslookup example.com 8.8.8.8

If the IP looks wrong, clear the local DNS cache:

ipconfig /flushdns

Also inspect the hosts file for an explicit override (make a backup before editing):

notepad "%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"

Look for any lines mapping the domain to an IP and comment or remove them if present.

If DNS is correct but the stale page persists, check for intermediary caches (router/ISP/CDN) or server-side caching. Header inspection helps reveal caching behavior; for example:

curl -I http://example.com

Look for Cache-Control, Expires, Age, or X-Cache/X-Cache-Lookup headers. If a CDN or reverse proxy is returning cached content, the host must purge that cache.

Other practical isolations: test the URL from a different network (smartphone on cellular), reboot the router (clears router DNS cache), temporarily switch the PC’s DNS to 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1, and disable any local web-protection/proxy services that may cache pages. Using IE’s developer tools (F12) with caching disabled while reloading can also force a fresh fetch.

If DNS, hosts, router, and local protections are clean yet the problem remains, the web host or CDN cache is the likely source and should be cleared by the site owner. Follow all edits to the hosts file and any privileged commands while running an elevated prompt and keep a backup of changed files.

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get him to email you a link to it and try that or retype in his address

Member Avatar for Dani

Could you provide us a link to the site? This way we can see if it really is, indeed, up and functioning for us correctly? ;) Clearing the cache should have done the trick.

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My friend just created his own domain. The first time I accessed it, it was just a simple "hi" message because he had no webpage up yet. Now he has a web page up, and even after deleting my cookies, clearing my cache, rebooting everything...I still only get the webpage with the "hi" popping up instead of the new one he put up.

To force a page reload in Internet Explorer, hold down the [Shift] key while left-clicking the mouse on the Refresh button in the browser tool bar. In the rare event that this does not work, try the same thing with the [Ctrl] key. This forces a reload and works for all browsers.

By the way, it's impossible to completely clear the Internet Explorer Temporary Files cache unless you do it manually. See for more on this.

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