----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OpenSRS lists" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [domains-gen] OpenSRS Live Reseller Update[Domains]-17/10/2005
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ** The DNS settings for expired domains will be replaced with > > the Tucows hostname > > Ummm, hmmm. > > Unless I'm seriously confused, changing the authoritative servers for a > domain name like this means that the following is going to happen: > > - A customer's domain name (example.com) expires. The customer > (an Earthlink user) notices within five minutes and calls to > renew it. > > - Every single Earthlink customer continues to see the > "renewyourname.net" page for 48 hours after the renewal, because > the TTL on the .com servers is still 48 hours, and Earthlink has > cached the fact that ns1.renewyourname.net/ns2.renewyourname.net > are authoritative for example.com. > > - The customer bitches about how we don't know what the hell we're > doing for two solid days. > > Compare this to the current situation, where the domain is placed on > hold and the customer sees an error message due to a DNS failure. When > he calls to renew it, it starts working again within no more than three > hours (the time of the negative TTL on *.gtld-servers.net). > > 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. Isn't that a bad thing? Yes, and also if they use a monitoring service to monitor their site it will still show as up even though the domain name has expired, therefore they will get no alert. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
