Figment

Roughly how long should it take to transfer a .com domain from one host to another, allowing for DNS records to be updated globally?

DominicA

did this on Tuesday myself... took about 24hrs to go global..

Figment

Hmmmm

Requested transfer of a .org.uk and .com on Monday. The .org.uk was still being updated on name servers yesterday. The .com still hasn't reached some nameservers (if any)

Denzil_Dog

max ttl (time to tile) for DNS is 5 days usually updates in 24-48 hrs, it depends how commonly queried the domain is, if it is used a lot, then more Nameservers will cache that info and it will take untill the TTL has expired, if the domain is rarely quieried (www and MX) then it could be pretty instantanious



[Edited by Denzil_Dog - 6/13/2003 10:54:17 AM]

Denzil_Dog

.com and all other TLD's (top level domains) can take anything up to 2 weeks as there is more than just DNS, if you are transfering the domain to a different icann accredited registrar then you have to request the transfer.
The tech/admin contacts are then emailed asking if they approve/acknowledge the trasnfer, once approved it takes 5-10 days to move to another registrar, then if Nameservers need changing this can take another few days

[Edited by Denzil_Dog - 6/13/2003 11:01:16 AM]

Figment

Ah I see

All of the emails approving the transfer were done on Monday, the transfer window was opened and the transfer requested same day.

I wasn't aware that the actual transfer took so long - modern technology eh?

Thanks for the info

Denzil_Dog

no probs fig
it is a bit of a pain sometimes, especially registra's like Joker.com that require you to open a transfer window

ps. that dell laptop dvd-drive you sold me last year is still working perfek god man

Figment

Ah, guess who mine was with! Yep joker.com. First time I've had to transfer a TLD. Moved others before and they've been PDQ, so mistakenly thought TLDs would be the same (or quicker)


Thought I recognised the name. Glad to hear it's still going strong!