At 7/8/04 6:42 PM, James M Woods wrote: >Here is a fast blast of good news from the com and net registry. For those >of you offering hosting, gone may be the days of the old 3please wait 24~48 >hours for your domain to work2 ;-)
That *is* excellent news. Thanks for passing it along. One thing I'd be interested to know, but can't find the answer to on VeriSign's FAQ page about this change[1], is whether the TTL value will still be 48 hours. If it is, that will mean that although new domains will be added immediately, and new visitors to a site will see the changes immediately (both of which are welcome improvements), people who have recently visited a site will still have to wait up to 48 hours to see the change. Since the owner of a domain undergoing a DNS change is likely to be a person who has recently visited his own site, the owner is normally one of the last people to see the effect of the change, which leads to complaints about slow response when people update their DNS (as opposed to, say, .biz domains, where the TLD TTL is just 2 hours). -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies [1] http://www.verisign.com/nds/naming/rapid_update/faq.html
