thanks zaxxon, good catch, anyway it's unclean but not wrong, the domain option is simply ignored
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timeout
Enables you to specify the initial timeout for a query to a nameserver. The default value is five seconds. The maximum value is 30 seconds. For the second and successive rounds of queries, the resolver doubles the initial
timeout and is divided by the number of nameservers in the resolv.conf file.
this is from aix6.1 "man resolv.conf"
setting timeout to 10 on aix5.3 leads to exactly 10s wait time, setting it on aix6.1 leads to one second wait time, seems to be a bug, or something in the behaviour has changed on aix6.1 and not yet documented in the man page