Custom domain: stogawear.org says is already taken error

[JakeM822]

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I have been trying to publish mygithub site for a client on the domain 'stogawear.org.

To do this, I have edited the DNS settings within the domain, including adding A records with my github accounts 4 IP addresses, a CNAME, and finally a TXT.

I did this on Thursday late at night, around 2-3AM but these changes are not being reflected in my pages when I keep getting this same error message:

This is the configuration I have added to my square space domain, to make sure its pointing to my github site:

Using command prompt, I can see that my IPs and CNAME are being detected on stogawear.org and its subdomain [www.stogawear.org]

Also, I have verified my domain within github with a TXT file, which you can see is also a part of my DNS records:

Even with all these steps in place it still says:
The custom domain stogawear.org is already taken. If you are the owner of this domain, check out https://docs.github.com/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/verifying-your-custom-domain-for-github-pages for information about how to verify and release this domain.

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[JakeM822]

Issue resolved! They answered my ticket request and released the domain from the previous developer who did work for my client.

Really thought I was going to have to wait for the automatic release over the next week, which no one would be happy about.

Should be common practice for people to release their domains after their done doing work with whatever client, I’m sure it causes a lot of people some headaches along with my self.