NameCheap DNS...
 

I used to get good speeds when updating DNS records at NameCheap - I reged a domain and it has been 24 hours and still Google can't verify with a CName or TXT record - I wonder if it is Google or NameCheap - Anyone else having issues?..

lucky you!
For me, always namechep was a good solid piece ........... shit.
Why do not you use proven quick and free solutions?
dns from namecheap has no comparison to cloudflare or cloudns

https://www.keycdn.com/blog/best-fre...ing-providers/

I use Amazon Web Service for DNS, changes are all within less than a minute. Hardly costs anything...

Cloudflare is the best

their dns speed is out of competition

i moved there all my domains

Don't I need to use Namecheap DNS to verify the domain with Cloudflare?..

Nope, it should work fine. Cloudflare rock solid for me as well.

Thanks - I will have a look...

What did you find?

A black hole of despair - I used to be able to do this shit blindfold...

Usually no problems with Namecheap, it pretty much takes a minute to change DNS settings. DNS cache on Google's side could be causing the problems.

I would suggest you to contacting Namecheap support or to try using the dig tool to make sure all DNS settings are fine.
https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/
https://www.digwebinterface.com/
It's also very useful to register new domains with preset name servers. I don't know does Namecheap still support this.

An alternative to this is to contact Google support and ask them to do the manual verification, if still possible.

There's also another thing called DNS cache and depending on your expiry settings, or the settings on the ISP side (in this case Google side), it could take a while for DNS changes to propagate. Unless there's some technical error on the Namecheap side, I'm pretty much sure it's the default DNS expiry times that you used and Google picked them up and will not try to get fresh results until the DNS cache expires.

Here's more information about how DNS works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

Hope that was helpful.

Thank you for helping me out with this - I think I understand - I will let you know how I get on...

Google Cloud DNS is the best dns services to use

I just bought one with NC this week and DNS was almost instant.

forget namecheap. namesilo is the new namecheap. :pimp