After Renaming my Pages Project, elpresidentepoole.gitlab.io Still Returns 404

The README.md that came with my pages project reads

To use this project as your user/group website, you will need one additional step: just rename your project to namespace.gitlab.io , where namespace is your username or groupname . This can be done by navigating to your project’s Settings .

but after renaming my project to “https://elpresidentepoole.gitlab.io/” the url leads to a 404. I heard on these forums to wait about 30 minutes to see if it updates, but it has been about 2 hours and the url still returns 404. Am I doing something wrong here?