VeriSign Inc. on Thursday announced it has sped up its updating of the .com and .net domains. Rather than twice a day, the registry now is sending a file of .com and .net changes every few seconds to the 13 distributed DNS servers for the domains.
The result is more instantaneous propagation of information on new name servers for specific domain names, said Matt Larson, a principal engineer at VeriSign. Under the previous batch approach, a domain-name registrant often would wait as long as 24 hours before changes to name-server information would trickle through the entire DNS, Larson said. That could lead to possible downtime when switching web hosting providers.
Source: eWeek
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