At 03:30 PM 1/5/2002 -0800, Robert L Mathews wrote: >At 1/5/02 10:34 AM, Joseph McDonald wrote: > >>YES! I believe Tucows proposed a very similar idea to Verisign: >>Right now, if you do a "check" command on a domain, and you are not >>the registrar for that domain, you receive an error message, otherwise >>you get the expiration date. The proposal was to have the check >>command return the expiration date regardless of who was the >>registrar. This would eliminate *huge* number of check/add commands and >>largely solve the problem, just as your IN_THE_LAST_24_HOURS flag >>would. Either one is fine by me. >> >>There was another proposal which would also take a huge load off of >>the registry: The top registrars do millions of check commands against >>the registry on a daily basis to support normal operations. On average >>there are less than 50K adds and 50K drops performed at the registry >>each day. Let's say the top 4 registrars each do 2.5 million checks a >>day (my guess is that this is a conservative number) for a total of 10 >>million checks a day. The idea is that the registry can push those >>100K changes out to the registrars, thus saving 9.6 *million* >>transactions a day, which is more than 100 per second, and when you >>figure in the peaks, you may be talking 200 per second during busy >>times. > >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
<snip> I would strongly suggest that you actually find out the facts and realities before you post "assumptions" and "guesses" and then proceed to build an argument based on a foundation of nonsense. Your numbers are complete guesses, rendering any analysis flawed. Besides, with just the one extra response code, this would all be a moot point. Yes, it really IS that simple. Harold Whiting
