Does anyone know if there is a propigation issue with .info domains? We just registered whichweb.info about 4 days ago and still have no propigation.

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but if you check your domain in the Afilias whois:

http://www.afilias.info/whois_search/

next to "Status" it says "HOLD" and then "OK." My .info domains all say "ACTIVE" and the "OK." You might want to check with your registrar to see what this means, or maybe someone here will know.

The DNS servers for your domain are listed correctly with your registrar, right?

.Info's

Alot of registrars donot directly have authority of .info's and re-sell .info's via another via another authorized regitrar which could cause the delay.

Contact your registrar. Your domain is on hold.

There is nothing special about .info domains. We register them every day and they go right through.

-t

Yeah i was just informing him that some registrars aren registrars and they are re-sellers and dont directly do the registration services thus they do via 3rd party please do contact your registrar and good luck.

Originally posted by Nova
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No, you were just spamming your URL. Spammer caught. Spammer stomped.

The last time I registered a .info, it took about a week to propagate. If you want to check, you can use anonymiser.com to try loading your page. Because in my .info case, there is a time when I could see my site through anonymiser before my isp could reach it.

This sounds like a problem with your ISP.

Remember that once a domain gets into the TLD Zone files, it should resolve. If you define the nameserver entries when you register the domain, there is no reason for the domain not to resolve the minute it's in the TLD zone files - for .info this is every 12 hours last time I checked.

Any query for a domain that is not found in a local cache should go to the root TLD Zone files. This references the nameservers defined for the domain. If these nameservers are correctly defined, the query succeeds, and now your ISPs cache contains the DNS "glue" records for your domain. It will refresh changes after the TTL or Time To Live timer expires.

If you register a domain with bogus nameservers and then query this domain, you may indeed load incorrect DNS information in your ISPs cache. If they have arbitrarily set their TTL values at a very high number, once you change the nameserver data to be valid, it will not be pulled down to your ISP until after the TTL value expires.

Remember that no one "pushes' DNS information from the TLD's Zone files down to individual ISPs, they all pull this data starting with the nameservers referenced in the Zone files the first time a given ISP tries to reference the domain.

-t

If its an isp problem then i would say the top 5 isps have the same problem. I have emailed the registar about the domain being on hold.