Hello, --- Robert L Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are excellent suggestions. But just to play devil's advocate: > even > with these good ideas implemented, don't you think that demand will > again > grow to fill all the registry connections (and then some)? > > For example, let's say that right now there are 200 checks a second > at > peak, and that's because people are trying to get 50,000 valuable > domains > they think might drop. Now let's say some sort of communication > method is > established such that people can tell in advance 49,000 of them > aren't > actually going to expire. Why wouldn't there still be 200 checks a > second > for the remaining 1,000 names? There's no reason I can see that a > single > domain couldn't get 200 checks a second; for any reasonably valuable > domain name, there are least 200 people worldwide who have the > ability > and desire to do one lookup a second or more on it. > > I suspect the peaks are 200 a second (or whatever) not because that's > the > limit of the demand, but because the system stops working beyond > that, so > you never see any higher demands reported. But the potential > connection > demand might be 1,000 times what you've seen; I doubt "speculators" > (however defined) are going to let any connections sit idle, even if > they > only want one domain instead of 100.
Easy solution, and has been proposed already: rate-limiting technology (also known as "throttling"). Verisign can easily make it so that the 96 registrars can't put in more than 1/96th of their capacity in terms of requests per second. Allowing each registrar to "hammer" the registry up to the maximum of their individual permissible amount is thus not a problem. Having registrars "saturate" their own connection usage isn't a denial of service attacks -- it's simply standard business practice, to make optimal use of one's resources. Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
