One possible option would be this: Some sites do actually not use real lookups to determine availabilty in the first step, they go by the zonefiles instead. I know it's not as precise, but it's certainly an option.
Best regards, Frank Michlick -- Frank Michlick, Sales Engineer Tucows Inc. / OpenSRS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bryan Waters Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:03 I can and will take every effort to speed it up on my side...as for the DomainDirect guys using the same API...i don't suppose their server is on the same high-speed network with no router congestion in between? Regardless, whatever I do will be a hack to get around a limited implementation. If I were going to really fix it, I would fix the API to support the functionality. To extend the structure to support the specification of multiple names and then add a looped or threaded process on the OpenSRS server seems like a relatively easy thing to do... -bryanw [...]