On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, David A.Ulevitch wrote: > It also means that changes can be made to host records quickly which is > important for people who don't plan well or have unexpected changes > that they want propagated. > > I'm appreciative of this change -- but fyi, they aren't the only TLD > operators doing this, there are quite a few doing near-instant changes > to their respective zones.
.biz, .info etc do this as well. It is an excellent policy, and a convenient thing not to wait several hours for your new .com domain to appear online immediately. The disadvantage is, of course, that several abusers who register domains at a rapid clip with these two tlds, setting < 1 minute TTL on these and pointing these domain names to IPs that are basically compromised boxes or virus infected boxes, will now also start using .com / .net There should be some way of fixing this, like requiring registrars to do more due diligence when registering domains, maybe, and some better / faster procedures to take down [say] phisher domains with fake contact info. Well yes, there is already a process, but it could sure do with more streamlining. regards --srs