Domain Names And Name Servers

Now you need to get your domain name to point to your web site with your new web host. To do
this, login to the place where your domain name is registered and update your nameservers. These should be supplied to you by your new web hosting company and are what tells the domain name to point to the new hosting account and away from the old one.
Now this nameserver update will take some time to complete. I would say give it 24 to 48 hours.
After that time has gone by your domain name should be pointing at your new hosting account.
While the change over it taking place, people will be taken (most often) to your web site with your old web host or your web site with the new web host.
Once your domain starts pointing at your new web hosting plan, you are almost all done. Turn back on your dynamic content, forums, blogs, comments, and more. Break open some of the good bubbly stuff too because you just completed something that most people dread. I would put moving a website from web host to web host right up there with doing your taxes. It is no fun at all. I would give it a week or two there before you cancel your old hosting account so that if you forgot to backup something you still have time to grab it before you old web host deletes it for good.