Many novice site owners wonder why the domain is not immediately available. Indeed, registration takes only a few minutes, what does the rest of the time take? The same problem occurs when transferring the address to another hosting. The reason for this is the delegation of domains. From the article you will find out what it is.
Before you start registration, you must select the name of the future site, which should consist of a unique sequence of letters or numbers (a hyphen is allowed, but not at the end or beginning). This combination is the domain name of your resource. You can purchase a free address from registrar companies, which can be easily found.
Registration process
First of all, you go to a resource that provides the services you need. Fill out the form in which you indicate your data. The registrar inspects them and, if everything is correct, makes a record of the new address in a special registry, that is, conducts domain delegation. Soon, information is updated on the main servers. If necessary, the cache on the DNS servers is updated.
Each stage of registration takes a certain amount of time, which depends on the settings of the organization. That is why you cannot start using the resource immediately after paying for the address. You can check the domain delegation in the control panel in your personal account on the registrar's website.
Domain Transfer
There is such a procedure as domain transfer or redelegation. To implement it, you need to apply for a change in the list of NS-servers. You can do this in your account on the registrar's website. For the correct procedure, you need to specify the new server addresses, which will be redeployed to.
Changes are made quickly, the approximate time is about half an hour. Then a longer process begins (up to several days) - irrelevant information about old values was cached on the providers' servers.
Such a domain zone update is a process that cannot be controlled. The waiting time depends on the settings of previous servers and the DNS status of each individual provider. It is technically impossible to predict when it will end and domain delegation will be completed. That is why you should be patient and not blame the new hosting for sluggishness: in this case, practically nothing depends on it.
What needs to be done to speed up the process?
The main reason slowing down domain delegation is caching of incorrect information about them. If you register a completely new address, just show a little patience and wait, this process should not take much time. It makes sense to act if you transfer a domain, then it is quite possible to reduce the waiting time.
- Contact the administrator of the server to which the address is delegated and ask him to change the TTL information (set the minimum value).
- Test the domain zone. Many registrar companies offer to do this automatically. Sometimes, due to network problems, this procedure fails even with a correctly configured zone, so you must decide whether to use this advice.
- When changing the list of servers for a domain, do not contact it for some time. If you need to work with the resource during the transfer, contact your hosting provider. Ask about the service domain name to access resources (also called technical aliases).
- If you can do this, clear the resolver cache yourself. For example, in the Windows operating system, you can do this using a console command.
To summarize
So now you know what domain delegation means. This is the second stage of registering your address on the Internet. First, information about the new address is added to a special database, then the domain is directly delegated. Without performing these important steps, you can’t expect a resource to work.
Delegation is an important stage of registration. Only after it is completely passed, the address will become fully functional, and only then can you see the site on the World Wide Web. In other words, delegation is activation of a registered domain.