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>Your registrar has to tell your TLD’s nameservers about the new nameservers for your domain (I don’t know exactly how long this takes or why it takes time, but
by aftbit 5y ago
>Your registrar has to tell your TLD’s nameservers about the new nameservers for your domain (I don’t know exactly how long this takes or why it takes time, but it’s not instant!)
How does this process work? Do the registrars push to the TLDs? Or do the TLDs pull from the registrars? Is there some other protocol / infrastructure besides DNS for managing this kind of updates?
- talideon 5y agoRegistrars interface with registries using a protocol called EPP (see RFC 5731 for the bit relevant to domains), generally speaking. They perform updates to domains by sending a domain:update request to the registry's EPP endpoint. There are some complications depending on whether registries treat nameservers are attributes of a domain or independent objects, but that's the gist of it. Behind the scenes, the registry will update their nameservers to reflect the updated nameserver list for the domain. Registries don't pull from registrars.