I dont get this uploading thing!

i got the emails from dreamhost.. one says the host should be guile.dreamhost.com and my user name should be robin123 and they gave me a password and i guess said to put guile.dreamhost.com as the directory (using fetch)
then they sent me a second email saying that my domain name (robinreece.com) can now be used as the host instead of the guile thingy...so i put this:
robinreece.com (host)
robin123 (user ID)
(then the password they gave me in the email)
robinreece.com (directory)

and it says that there is no host by that name
so then i did this:

guile.dreamhost.com
robin123
password
robinreece.com

and it connects but i dont know what it connects to...
i want to be able to type in www.robinreece.com and have my index page pop up but nothing happens...

am i just retarded or what?!
can someone please help?
thanks
robin

sounds like you need to wait for the DNS to propi(a?)gate. may take a few days from the time you told your registrar to point DNS to Dreamhost's name servers.

jason

thanks jason... i hope youre right... but i got my domain name through dream host and they told me this (and i quote) "the purpose of this meail is to let you konw that your domain robinreece.com (as well as www.robinreece.com of course) has just been activated on our apache web server software. as long as your domain's whois information is correct and is configured on our dns servers (you should receive another email about this) your site should be available on the web now!"
so yeah.... its all greek to me... so im hoping that that means what you said :)
thanks

I check the WHOIS database http://www-whois.internic.net/cgi/whois and it's showing "available for registration". That and the date on your post would indicate that you've just been going at this today? If that's the case, definitely give it a few days and it will all come together.

The mail from Dreamhost indicated that they've done their end that needs to be handled and now it's up to the internet to catch up.

jason

It was just registered today - give it a day or two. :>

Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 11-Jan-2003.
Record expires on 11-Jan-2004.
Record Created on 11-Jan-2003.

Domain servers in listed order:
NS.NEWDREAM.NET 66.33.206.6
NS2.NEWDREAM.NET 66.33.216.16
NS3.NEWDREAM.NET 64.70.42.11

I'm having the same problems. Does this mean that I shouldn't even bother to create an index.html for a couple days?

If so, how will I know that it is ready for me to start making the website?

From https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=142:

Success!

Once you are able to visit your site from a web browser and view an empty directory listing (this is how they always start, before you put files into them), your domain is active! From that point, feel free to start uploading your web files!

Viewing your site before your domain is up!

If you'd like to view your uploaded site on our servers (to check that everything is working, or whatever!) before your domain is up, you can! Simply go to the Domain > Add Domain area of our web panel and add a free dreamhost.com sub-domain (e.g. "yourdomain.dreamhost.com"). Choose it to be a "mirror" domain and set it up to mirror your real domain that hasn't gone live yet. When you're done, within an hour you'll be able to see your site at http://yourdomain.dreamhost.com/ exactly as it will be when your domain is transferred!

Bob S.