Holey Moley That Was Fast

[Ask The Geezer]

I don't buy a lot of domains, and I only own 2. But my partner has several and they are through godaddy. And he has no idea what a server contol panel is. I've tried explaining it, even sent him a screenshot, and he's never seen one at godaddy. Personally, I couldn't live without it.

And this isn't about NetSol or godaddy, it's about how fast a new DNS can propogate. I remember 5 or 6 years ago, it would take 3 or 4 days, and in that time, you never knew what server you were seeing your site on. Sometimes it would be there, then an hour later, nothing. Now, it's only hours, and that's simply amazing to me.

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I don't buy a lot of domains, and I only own 2. But my partner has several and they are through godaddy. And he has no idea what a server contol panel is. I've tried explaining it, even sent him a screenshot, and he's never seen one at godaddy. Personally, I couldn't live without it.

Yea, you should see the go daddy control panel. I am logging into it myself right now to set a couple domains to redirect to a different server for free. Not a DNS change, just a redirect provided by go-daddy. I can even mask it so you don't know what the 'actual' domain it's being redirected to is for a couple extra bucks. I can even alias emails from my domains at go daddy to other mail accounts for free.

I don't think the speed factor is unique to netsol either.... I rarely wait more than 12 hours for domain to fully propigate. I was just poking fun at EVP, we registered a domain at the same time, in fact I think he got a jump on it at an even cheaper place... I ended up with the domain and had it redirected to my server in a few hours.

But I guess if you don't register alot of domains, it won't help your margin much.