Comments on: Tip about domain parking http://www.memwg.com/tip-about-domain-parking/ Google AdSense Tips and Advice Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Colin http://www.memwg.com/tip-about-domain-parking/comment-page-1/#comment-2896 Colin Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:31:16 +0000 http://memwg.com/general/tip-about-domain-parking/#comment-2896 Oddly enough I just transferred a domain that I sold when I read this. I manage my DNS so I started prep by reducing the cache time down to an hour for my name servers. Everything checked out ok. Then as we got close I reduced down to 5 minutes and found out - my ISP won't honor that! So they defaulted to 48 hours! Now anyone on my ISP has to wait 48 hours. I guess the lesson learned for me is don't go to less than an hour on the nameservers :) And the hosts file idea works great to bypass your ISP. If you run your own server or cache at home (like for a multi-site development environment) you can also declare anything as a private domain and point it in the right direction as well. This also works great (but overly complicated) to point one or two obnoxious pop-up domains into the ether for your whole network. Oddly enough I just transferred a domain that I sold when I read this. I manage my DNS so I started prep by reducing the cache time down to an hour for my name servers. Everything checked out ok. Then as we got close I reduced down to 5 minutes and found out – my ISP won’t honor that! So they defaulted to 48 hours! Now anyone on my ISP has to wait 48 hours.

I guess the lesson learned for me is don’t go to less than an hour on the nameservers :) And the hosts file idea works great to bypass your ISP. If you run your own server or cache at home (like for a multi-site development environment) you can also declare anything as a private domain and point it in the right direction as well. This also works great (but overly complicated) to point one or two obnoxious pop-up domains into the ether for your whole network.

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