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Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
From: Andy Walden <andy () enigma mtco com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:58:16 -0500 (CDT)
I seemed to have missed the section he mentioned additional charges. I was thrilled to see they would be blocking domains as the high use ones are just spammers raping the database. Sincerely, Andy Walden System Administrator MTCO Communications 1-800-859-6826 On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Christopher K. Phillips wrote:
At 05:03 PM 9/1/98 -0400, you wrote:Network Solutions has been seeing increased traffic on whois in the last few months. The number of queries has approximately doubled each month since June. At this time, 40% of our inbound http traffic is whois related. In an attempt to alleviate some of the load on the servers, we have taken the following steps: - Some of the worst offenders (single site, large number of accesses)willbe blocked from access starting this week - Replication of the whois data will be started earlier in the eveningtoallow for more timely updates - Existing whois hosts have had processor and memory upgrades - Local file storage is now being used vice NFS - Medium-term and long-term development efforts are underway to redesign whois for optimal performance. This includes in-memory searches, better parsing and dynamic updates obviating the need for large daily datamovements._____________________________________ David H. Holtzman (dholtz () internic net) Sr Vice President of Engineering Network Solutions, Inc.I may be wrong but aren't the fees that Network Solutions is charging for domain name registration "supposed" to cover the costs of providing WHOIS service for those domains? Is this just another attempt to nickel and dime everyone to death on some sort of new usage charge for WHOIS service? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher K. Phillips President - Vanion, Inc. V: 719-574-1826 F: 719-574-1837 C: 719-229-7890 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Enhanced Services Company --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois, (continued)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dan Watts (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois bmanning (Sep 02)
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- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Derek Balling (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Andy Walden (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Bill Becker (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Patrick Greenwell (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dean Robb (Sep 04)
- RE: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Kevin Oberman (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Karl Denninger (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 03)