5 minute updates on whois starts today???

mark · Sep 8, 2004

I thought the 5 minutes or less updates on .com .net and .org were supposed to start today? anyone confirm?

chatcher · Sep 8, 2004

mark said:
I thought the 5 minutes or less updates on .com .net and .org were supposed to start today? anyone confirm?

I haven't heard anything about a change in whois updates, but rapid DNS updates for the .com and .net TLD zones is supposed to start today.

mfk_1868 · Sep 8, 2004

i havent heard too

mark · Sep 8, 2004

chatcher said:
I haven't heard anything about a change in whois updates, but rapid DNS updates for the .com and .net TLD zones is supposed to start today.

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ok, believe you are right--for dns only; maybe rapid whois will be next.

Hey · Sep 10, 2004

How long is the rapid DNS wait time ? I had to wait 12 hours for a domain I just bought is that it ?

chatcher · Sep 11, 2004

Hey said:
How long is the rapid DNS wait time ? I had to wait 12 hours for a domain I just bought is that it ?

Theoretically, the wait time is now down to about five minutes. That is AFTER the registrar gets the name servers set correctly with the registry. Normally when you register a domain, this happens at the time of registration. But if you buy the domain from a drop service it can be much later, or sometimes not until you make the change yourself at the registrar.

Even if the name servers are updated quickly in the TLD zone, older information can be cached at other DNS servers preventing many people from seeing the change for a long time. The big ISP's, especially, have a reputation for caching DNS lookups (including TLD zone lookups) for days.