Why does a simple DNS update take 5+ days to propagate at eNom?

[Credit]

Changed the nameservers on a domain to a different parking company 5 days ago, but it still resolves to the old page. Whois has been showing the new dns almost right away.

Customer support also not responding in over 48 hours :-\

[David G]

Very odd. Yesterday I had a few names where the propogation took just a few minutes at Moniker. In fact, one was in a few seconds.

One little trick I learned is to do it twice within seconds of each other. I do that when changing dns and want a fast change done.

[Acro]

The TTL (time to live) of the nameservers of *your* ISP determines how quickly you can access the new DNS. To expedite this, flush the old DNS in Windows by bringing up a command console, then type:

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Close and restart your browsers and in Firefox you might need to empty the cache as well.

Some ISPs, however do not accept such forced update and you have to wait the full 48 hours for the new DNS to propagate to them.

[Credit]

The TTL (time to live) of the nameservers of *your* ISP determines how quickly you can access the new DNS. To expedite this, flush the old DNS in Windows by bringing up a command console, then type:

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Close and restart your browsers and in Firefox you might need to empty the cache as well.

Some ISPs, however do not accept such forced update and you have to wait the full 48 hours for the new DNS to propagate to them.

Hey Theo,

Thanks for the explanation - by the time I read this they finally updated the nameservers.

For some reason I always thought that TTL was set by the DNS admin.

Will use this as a reference for the future