So, I’ve changed my nameservers on my domain to point to my new host and granted it takes time to propagate, but after a good few hours, peteralewis.com is active and pointing to my new host.

Almost.

searchportal hijackwww.peteralewis.com (with the www) gets redirected to searchportal.information.com (also related to spi.domainsponsor.com). After a quick search it appears this is common and people start blaming Google, IE, spyware and ISPs for redirecting domains that can’t be found to these websites.

I use Fasthosts for my domains and this site is currently hosted with Dreamhost - I’ve no idea if one of these are responsible, my previous host (hostgator) or some higher management of domains.

But the reason it’s occurring is that the domain hasn’t fully propagated throughout the internet. Low and behold around 18 hours from setting up the new nameservers, the www. address points to the correct place.

Problem solved, although it would be good to know why the address without the www worked straight away…