Once upon a time, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> said:
If people like Melbourne IT are going to claim they can't act on weekends, it might also be sensible not to allow transfers to be processed between Thursday and Sunday, though honestly I think if you are going to be a registrar, you are going to have to deal with problems over weekends.
We're a relatively small ISP compared to many on NANOG, but we have a 24x7 on-call system with an answering service. All domain registrars should be required to have 24x7 service. The GTLD (and other TLD) servers have a 2 day TTL on all records; if panix.com was fixed right now it would be Tuesday before everyone saw it. How hard would it be for Verisign (and other registries) to have the TTL "ramp up" after a change? In other words, when the NS records for domain.com get changed (but not after an initial registration), put them in the .com zone initially with a short TTL, maybe 6 hours, and then after 2 days move the TTL up to 12 hours, after another 2 days move it to 24 hours, and then after a week total move it to 2 days. How much more load would that really cause? Especially with the "streamlined" transfer procedure now in place, this would be a very good idea. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.