Dotster CNAME personal domain won't work

I have established my CNAME at Dotster as web.mac.com (it has been set for over a week and Dotster states it is pointing correctly). I have set my personal domain name at .mac. Here's what I get:
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.mypersonaldomain.com/” because it can’t find the server “www.mypersonaldomain.com”.
Similar with Firefox.
HELP!!! Please! Anyone else having this issue?
No answer (day 4) from .mac support...

You need to go to your .Mac account settings and change the personal domain stuff to nothing or whatever it is you want.
In any case it does not matter what iWeb says down at the bottom, it can only publish to one place, and that is your iDisk, and your real url will always stay web.mac.com/username.

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Well I did precisely that over a month ago.
BTW My domain name is aristomenis.com, and I do not use .mac for email.
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If anyone could provide some advice it would be very much appreciated - Tom thanks for you earlier help. I attach the latest email to Apple Support.
Hi Arthur, (The Apple Support Consultant)
We still have the same problems, even after entirely deleting all websites, idisks etc and carrying out the steps you asked (even though this is what we had already explained to you that we had done!). To requalify we have:
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i) the account is paid for and appears to be active!
DNS entries:
Host Record type Value
64.13.248.146/24 PTR mpi.com.au.
ftp.mpi.com.au. CNAME mpi.com.au.
mail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. NS ns.mpi.com.au.
mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. MX(10) mail.mpi.com.au.
ns.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
webmail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
www.mpi.com.au CNAME web.mac.com.
Arthur, we realy need to get this resolved can we get developer/senior problem solver assistance. I think that the items points g & h are very relevant!

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Hi,
We have the following problem, no assistance being provided from .dotmac (2 days, 3 days - 2 requests).
Symptoms:
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1) Ensuring that we have a proper domain name (www.xxx.com.au)
2) Ensuring that we have created a CNAME alias (www.xxx.com.au -> web.mac.com)
3) Associating the name www.xxx.com.au as our personal domain
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Host Record type Value
xx.yy.aaa.aaa / 24 PTR xxx.com.au.
ftp.xxx.com.au. CNAME xxx.com.au.
mail.mpi.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
xxx.com.au. NS ns.xxx.com.au.
xxx.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
xxx.com.au. MX(10) mail.xxx.com.au.
ns.xxx.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
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we have followed apple's instructions:
1) Ensuring that we have a proper domain name (www.mpi.com.au)
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All that has happened so far is that when you type in www.mpi.com.au in a browser window, you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
More interesting is when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check the account settings -> personal domain you see www.mpi.com.au listed and when you click on it you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
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ftp.mpi.com.au. CNAME mpi.com.au.
mail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. NS ns.mpi.com.au.
mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. MX(10) mail.mpi.com.au.
ns.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
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