I think it does, this is all based on your target audience. Using the term propagate is fine, because what is it to propagate anyway? and because of that, the

I think it does, this is all based on your target audience. Using the term propagate is fine, because what is it to propagate anyway? and because of that, the devils' in the detail after all. Of course in technical terms the way that the records propagate is via the updating of cached records. But that is the mechanism in which DNS propagates. You said it yourself, it's a fine to non-technical users. But of course, one single word cannot encapsulate how something actually works at a technical level. We're being pedantic about how the word applies to how DNS records work, but it is the best option. Given that the author couldn't suggest an alternative, I feel that we're being too technical and nerdy of the use of the word. Heck, Rackspace, Cloudflare and ICANN all use the the term propagate. ICANN even use it in their functional requirements.