Way to go on the reading, sherlock! (Score 0)

Quote from VeriSign's website:

"VNDS is scheduled to deploy on September 8, 2004 a new feature that will enable VNDS to update the .com/.net zones more frequently to reflect the registration activity of the .com/.net registrars in near real time."

Quote from /.:

"Beginning September 9, 2004 the SOA records of the .com and .net zones will be updated every 5 minutes instead of twice a day."

Seems that someone got excited and got sloppy!