[OT] zonedit.com and changing DNS servers from current provider

[Mark Andrews]

In message <C8E4FBFA-E27C-4B25-9AF5-541413950562 at newgeo.com>, Scott Haneda writes:
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> 
> > My hosting contract is running out on 2009-04-16 and now I like  to   
> > use
> > <zonedit.com> to host my zones.  Unfortunately  I  have  not  found   
> > the
> > answer to my qustion on there help page and they  do  not  reply   
> > to  my
> > question per mail except an autoreply.
> 
> Maybe you should reconsider using them if you are already having  
> support issues before you even use their services.
> 
> > So does someone know, if I setup Zonedit how to eliminate the ZONE  
> > at my
> > current ISP and HOW to change the WHOIS record?
> 
> You should email your current ISP and ask them to delete the zone,  
> unless you have a control panel in which you an do so yourself.  I can  
> say, as a small ISP, this never happens, and we have developed tools  
> to run on a schedule to let us know when a domain has been moved.
> 
> To update the WHOIS, you just login to the registrar (the place you  
> purchased the domain for) and make a update in the NS section.

	If you want a smooth transition, the ISP should slave the
	new zone content until the caches are cleared of the old
	NS RRsets (parent and zone).

	Mark
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