New Domain Live in 10 Minutes

Wow, this is a BIG improvement

[MarkHutch]

I just registered a new domain name via Network Solutions and was ready to wait until morning for it to become live. However, just for the heck of it, I did a domain lookup via my DNS server about 10 minutes later and you guessed it, the IP address was showing up in the query. No whois available, but the site IP address was live.

Just to make sure I wasn't going nuts, I polled three other DNS servers and did a lookup on them, too and I got the correct IP addresses on each of them.

Has anyone else noticed this on new domain name registrations?

Just wanted to pass this along. Not sure if other domain name providers are this fast.

[mcavic]

Yeah, I've been seeing that consistently in the last few months. It's not just Network Solutions. The root servers are being updated in near-realtime. Same with nameserver changes -- the propagation is much less than 24 hours.

[maximillianos]

My most recent acquisition took about 12+ hours before I was seeing consistent results from querying it....

[mcavic]

If it's an existing domain, the propagation time depends on the old DNS settings.

[MarkHutch]

I'm sure you're right. Since it was a new domain name, that's probably why it was available that quick. However, in the past, when I poll the main root servers, the DNS info was not available for up to 24 hours. That part is new.

I know many ISP's set TTL longer than is requested by the domain name owner. In that event, yes the information won't update until the ISP TTL has expired.

[djzooky]

it's kinda like moore's law, every 6 months there has been steady improvement on the time it takes for a domain to become live.

i've noticed it more so lately though. it's almost scary.

maybe the dotcom boom will come back due to near-realtime registrations.