Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones

Mon Oct 6 00:29:20 UTC 2003

Heres an interesting question Matt, maybe you can provide me with a
worthwhile answer.

Last night, I finally got around to registering a .org domain for my use.
It took only 20 minutes from the time which I registered it, gave it my DNS
servers, and paid for it, to when it was resolveable everywhere in the
world.  Thats *20* minutes.

Why does it take NetSol 24/48/72 hours to do the same thing?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Larson" <mlarson at verisign.com>
To: <nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones

>
> VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
> 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5.  We requested an extension from ICANN
> to give more notice to the community but were denied.  We will be
> removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning
> at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4.  The former behavior for these
> zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
> nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday,
> October.
>
> Matt
> --
> Matt Larson <mlarson at verisign.com>
> VeriSign Naming and Directory Services
>