How long the average global DNS population time?

[ichsie]

I have registered one .com with godaddy and since then changed Name Server to my hosting company, but it's been 3 days and I cannot still access it, even from a proxy based in US.


Is there potentially any problem? A little worried now, and contacting Godaddy support.

 

[weblord]

Propagation, the process whereby name servers across the Internet are updated with new information so that they resolve to the proper location after a DNS update, can take between 12-72 hours to complete.

http://www.domainit.com/support/faq.mhtml?category=URL_Forwarding_and_IP_Pointing&question=46

 

[Rob J]

72 hours, but the vast majority of people will pull the correct dns after a few hours.

If you need to access it by domain to set up a site or test or whatever you can temporarily add a record to your local hosts file ( C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or /etc/hosts in linux ) such as:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx example.com

(where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip you want it to resolve to) this obviously only works for you, but at least you'll be able to access the site while dns resolves