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