Now when you call their support, as I’ve done twice today, they’ve been instructed to tell you that it is the fault of the new hosting account.  This is complete rubbish and they know it.  If you’ve set up your new account at the new host before you change your domain name servers (DNS), they’re ready to accept it.  The problem lies squarely with the registrar e.g. 1&1 and for the management to have instructed their support to tell people it’s the fault of the new host is just inexcusable.   Every registrar will tell you that it can take time to propagate the DNS settings across the Internet, but when you’re working with a quality registrar you’re going to see the change in a matter of minutes, not hours.  That doesn’t mean that at some point you might not pop on your site during the first 24 hours and find it momentarily inaccessible, but that’s rare, and when working with good registrars I’ve never seen it happen.

Do yourself a favor and start with a quality registrar.  I recommend Godaddy for domain names, I’ve got a reseller account there but I am not even going to put the link in this post, that’s not the point.  The point is to help save you some headaches.

What’s you’ve installed WordPress with their one button install and marked that you want to use it at your home page you cannot go back.  You cannot delete that wordpress install and you cannot undo the damage of having the home page in a directory other than the root.

This is just one such problem with Network Solutions.  My experience is that they force the user into similar situation with all of their products.  Their customer support has always been resistant when I’ve needed to move a client away from their steel grip, and to top it all off they tend to be more expensive than many of the competitors.  My recommendation, avoid Network Solutions like the plague.