Fastest nameservers propagation.

Artashes

Artashes

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We all know it can take 24 to 72 hours for domain nameservers to be propagated, according to domain registrars. However, there are some registrars who perform the function faster than others. For example, GoDaddy has been consistently fast at it (few minutes, sometimes almost instant) for me as of recent. However, Namecheap takes quite a few hours.

So in your experience, which domain registrars show the fastest nameserver propagation time?

Best,
 
I just registered a domain with Namecheap about a week ago.
Within 3 hours I could access the site.
That seemed pretty good to me ... it may have taken longer around the world.

I've also transferred a domain name .... was completed in 24 hours. This was a .ca domain name too.

So far, very happy with their service.
 
WorldCom said:
I just registered a domain with Namecheap about a week ago.
Within 3 hours I could access the site.
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3 hours isn't bad. I have a dot-net name that is still propagating... Its been good 12 hours. Could it possibly be that propagation times vary for dot-coms and dot-nets?
 
I noticed with Namecheap, it depends on the "time" you register it. I registered once in the day time and it took till next day to get going. On another occassion, I bought one closer to midnight here. I believe it was around 9-10pm and by 12-1am, it was running. I was surprised, but happy because I could upload all my files, rather than waiting till the next day.

I'm assuming, if you register closer to the WHOIS update or registrar registry update, your domain will become active faster.
 
Artashes said:
3 hours isn't bad. I have a dot-net name that is still propagating... Its been good 12 hours. Could it possibly be that propagation times vary for dot-coms and dot-nets?
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I cant really say if they vary in time.
The other factor you have to consider is when your ISP and it's nameservers ....where ever they may be ... get updated too.
Eg they may only update every 12 hours or maybe 24.
Example: Last year I registered a domain .... again .... I had the site up before I left my house. A little over 2 hours and this was with RegisterFly ... grrrrr

Anyway, I went visited a small pub ...... I told them to go to the site .... it wouldn't come up. They are like 5 mins from me ..... but use a different ISP to access the net.

So go figure ;)
 
Its been the past couple or so years that I have found Dotster to be really quick to start propagating new domain names or any changes.

However, I have been told that the real hurdle is ... how often do the routers that your ISP uses to guide you to the sites update themselves.

There seems to be companies with really good routers (or thats what I am told they are called) that update a few times a day ... and then other companies whose routers only update themselves every 24 to 48 hrs. Then of course you get everyone else in between.

I "used" to have a list of companies with "slow routers" ... probably filed somewhere I can't find it now. If I made a change & the propagation took a "long time" ... I could lay odds that the hold up or "blockage" would happen with one of the routers owned by a company on that list. I'd do a traceroute to find out where in the routing the connection was "bogging down".

I've had my current ISP for about 3 or 4 years now ... and the routers they use seem really fast in updating their info. I have bought a new domain or made a nameserver change and its taken as few as 20 minutes (which really suprised me) to as long as 36 hrs ... which is still way better than it used to be when it took a minimum of a day and up to 4 days (or more).
 
Artashes said:
We all know it can take 24 to 72 hours for domain nameservers to be propagated, according to domain registrars. However, there are some registrars who perform the function faster than others. For example, GoDaddy has been consistently fast at it (few minutes, sometimes almost instant) for me as of recent. However, Namecheap takes quite a few hours.

So in your experience, which domain registrars show the fastest nameserver propagation time?

Best,
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Oddly enough when I was trying several domain registrars that Omnis proprogated my nameservers instantly. Especially since their database is located in the U.S. and I live in the UK.

DomainSite.com are extremly fast for nameserver proprogation.
 
We have noticed propagation to be a lot quicker with namecheap, more than likely it could be your ISPs end like listed earlier. You could always check with a proxy to see if your site goes live before when you actually see it with your ISPs nameservers. There are a couple proxys that I can list for you off the top of my head.


www.proxysystems.net
www.proxify.com
 
When StarGate is not being a jerk, it's instant, I love that about them. I have a 6.95 reseller with them, but usually they're jerks and lock your orders even if you paid days before. Their support rate is slow, but the instant propagation is amazing.

One fast one I've seen was Yahoo. I use eNom as well, and they take FOREVER. The last domain I registared with them, they lost it's status, I had to pay for it again, and I'm not registaring another domain with them, since that incident.
 
Marks said:
DomainSite.com are extremly fast for nameserver proprogation.
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They advertise instant propagation. I think that I've experienced it with most of the domains I've registered. Having them online within a few minutes of registering, point them to my server, and displaying my site! If not instant it has always been within a few minutes.
 
Well, The best one i have known is the I<<advertising removed>> , which gave me a <<advertising removed>> of 2 Hrs . I had hardly registerned the domiain with them and within the nest teo hous i could see my site online !

Besids they provide , excellent aadon features and cool prices.
 
OpenSRS is quite fast. I have noticed that some of my domains have resolved in a little under 1-2 mins. If you set up the account on the server before you set the nameservers, i have found resolution is even quicker... strange
 
Here's what i have experienced....

If your buying a domain name for the 1st time and buying hosting from the same company then you can use your domain name almost instantly,

But

If your buying hosting and domain registration separately with 2 different companies, then of course you have to change domain name severs from your current domain name service to the web hosting service, so this may take any where between 24-72 hours to update. And depending on your location time period may vary.... :)
 
Well a little tidbit of info (we actually run a registration service), you will typically experience longer propagation times when it comes to mixed domain situations.

That is to say....

1. Your DNS is ns1.domain.COM, but
2. the domain you're registering is .NET

It takes longer for those (not sure why, but it does).

.ORG takes about a lifetime if the nameservers are also not .org

Typically, when the nameserver extention and the domain extention are the same, I have experienced almost instant - a few min propagation.
 
Dev4vip said:
Here's what i have experienced....

If your buying a domain name for the 1st time and buying hosting from the same company then you can use your domain name almost instantly,

But

If your buying hosting and domain registration separately with 2 different companies, then of course you have to change domain name severs from your current domain name service to the web hosting service, so this may take any where between 24-72 hours to update. And depending on your location time period may vary.... :)
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I would suspect that this has much more to do with you hosting account being set up automatically versus having to wait for manual intervention.

If you can add records to an existing nameserver for a newly registered domain, it will resolve faster as it's not dependent on the nameservers resolving.

ISP's use caching nameservers, so as has already been mentioned it has quite a bit to do with the apparent resolving of a domain.

As computers speed up and are capable of handling more information for a given period, DNS resolution will shorten as well since it's possible for registrars to update their databases, the master nameservers and ISP's to update more often without negative effects.
 
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