Thanks William,

But do you mean that they contain the complete zone files for all the .com,.net and 
.org
domains or the NS records only, and is there any separator between each successive 
domains?

Regards,

Ramy Nabil

"William X. Walsh" wrote:

> Hello Ramy,
>
> Monday, April 23, 2001, 6:48:22 AM, Ramy Nabil wrote:
>
> > Anyone here tried to download the zone files from the  nsiregistry.com to tell me 
>what is
> > the average size of the zone files (how many records, and the length of each 
>record, and
> > what fields are stored in it) and whether it is available for download in a zipped 
>format
> > or not?
>
> In compressed format, the 3 files that make up the dns zone files for
> com/net/org, combined are approx. 500MB.  That is COMPRESSED size. You
> will need several times that space to decompress them for parsing.
>
> As for the data records, these are actual dns zone files.  The entries
> for the domains are like:
>
> USERFRIENDLY.COM. 172000 IN NS NS1.USERFRIENDLY.COM.
> USERFRIENDLY.COM. 172000 IN NS NS2.USERFRIENDLY.COM.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  William                           mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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