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Took me two weeks.
Took another two weeks to fix my password so I could actually log in.

So I'm waiting for my account (staring at the clock, humming a balero out of beat), and it occured to me, why does it take that long? I understand that the DNS needs to propegate and then clear, but I don't know what that is exactly.

Could anyone more internetionallistically inclined than me explain what the server is doing there?