Excuse duplication, if any - finger trouble. On Tuesday 18 Oct 2005 5:34 am, Robert L Mathews wrote: > > three hours (the time of the negative TTL on *.gtld-servers.net).
dig suggests 15 minutes, but I haven't dumped the database to check what named thinks. > In other words, this change will make expired domain names take up to 48 > hours, instead of up to three hours, to start working again after > they're renewed. They would take whatever the TTL on the NS record on the TUCOWS servers is since that is where the authority resides. That would depend on TUCOWS procedures, but could be less that 15 minutes, even 1 second (unlikely). > Isn't that a bad thing? I think it is not a good thing, despite being able to see how it might be implemented without causing undue delays in recovering service. > What benefits will the new scheme offer to make up for this? Advertising revenue to TUCOWS at a guess? How else will they auction domains if the users don't know it is up for auction. I think anything that complicates the recovery procedure for domains, obscures what will happen, or otherwise makes things less transparent is bad. Besides I thought changing the DNS servers during transfers was frowned on by ICANN, or one of the registrys? We are already losing revenue because the procedures surrounding ".BIZ", transfers are too complex, people give up. The end users (most of) just aren't that interested in domain names, they just want it to work. If it involves much more than a username, password, and clicking "yes", they'd rather make it someone elses problem. As the DNS admin (only one of my hats), we often acquire end user usernames, and passwords, for working on third party DNS management interfaces, because what to most here are "obvious" are totally bewildering to the average customer. This is not good practice from a security perspective. The problem with .BIZ is probably the same security settings apply to all domains, along with the general problems of domain name management. But the point stands, this is all too complex, and this doesn't seem to be simplification. Right, I'm off to prove to Nominet, that despite owning the servers, other domains, PGP key, software, customers, and even directors of a company, and paying for their service, that we are the organisation to which they should return a domain that belonged to that company. Wish me luck. So far I've had "no", and "I'll get back to you Monday morning". _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
