Many novice website owners are wondering why the domain is not immediately available. Indeed, registration takes only a few minutes, what takes the rest of the time? The same problem occurs during the transfer of the address to another hosting. The reason for this is the delegation of domains. From the article you will learn what it is.
Before starting registration, you must select the name of the future site, which must consist of a unique sequence of letters or numbers (hyphens are 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 that 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, it delegates domains. Soon the information will be updated on the main servers. In case thisnecessary, the cache on the DNS servers is updated.
Each stage of registration takes a certain amount of time, which depends on the organization's settings. That is why you cannot start using the resource immediately after paying for the address. You can check 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 to change the list of NS servers. You can do this in your personal account on the registrar's website. For the correct procedure, you need to specify the new addresses of the servers to which the redelegation will be performed.
Changes are made quickly, the approximate time is about half an hour. Then a longer process begins (up to several days) - outdated information about the old values \u200b\u200bis cached on the providers' servers.
This domain zone update is a process that cannot be controlled. The waiting time depends on the settings of the previous servers and the state of the DNS of each individual provider. It is technically impossible to predict when it will end and the delegation of domains will be completed. That is why you should be patient and not blame the new hosting for sluggishness: in this case, almost nothing depends on it.
What should be done to speed up the process?
The main reason slowing down domain delegation is cachingwrong information about them. If you are registering a brand new address, just be a little patient and wait, this process shouldn't take long. It makes sense to act if you are transferring a domain, then it is quite possible to reduce the waiting time.
- Contact the administrator of the server to which the address is being 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 properly configured zone, so it's up to you to decide whether to use this tip.
- When changing the list of servers for a domain, do not access it for a while. If you need to work with a resource during the migration, please contact your hosting provider. Ask for a 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 the console command.
Summing up
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 completing these critical steps, you can't expect a resource to work.
Delegation is an important stepregistration. Only after it is completely passed, the address will become fully functional, and only then you will be able to see the site on the World Wide Web. In other words, delegation is the activation of a registered domain.
