In recent news VeriSign announced they would raise the update interval for nameserver changes on .com and .net zones.

The idea is good and is welcomed by many hosts, this allows us to transfer domains from one nameserver to another faster than we can today.

It does not however solve the very broken way .com and .net domains work.
In Denmark the concept is very simple and works very well.

The difference between .dk and .com/.net lies in the procedure to transfer domains. In the DK-TLD we ask Dk-Hostmaster to send the owner of the domain a request for approval of transfer, this is working quite well, since the owner of the domain can decide when to transfer the domain.

It works a little different with COM-TLD and NET-TLD. Here it is not the owner of the domain who is contacted; it is the registrar whom has to approve the transfer of the domain. This simply causes a shitload of problems, since some hostmasters are extremely slow to approve these requests, or in some cases even ignores them. The idea is good, but not better than the weakest link, which is these slow hostmasters.

So a few hours less to change nameservers is NOTHING compared to the days and weeks you have to wait for some hostmasters to actually accept the request for transfer.