toolman - 1:01 pm on May 25, 2001 (gmt 0)

Last week I secured a domain on Friday at 3:00PM, set up the server at 3:10 and was live and resolving by 12:00 on Saturday. That was the exception. Usually it takes a couple of days for the zone files to filter through everywhere.

A dedicated IP is great when your domain doesn't resolve...otherwise your host should provide a path to your site on their server.

Dedicated IP's are going to be more and more scarce as more hosts go to name based domains. I haven't noticed any difference one way or the other with the SE's.