At 1/5/02 4:10 PM, Joseph McDonald wrote: >For example, let's say that everyone *thinks* that coolname.com is >going to drop within the next 3 days. So they fire up their >connections and they each pound the registry with 100 check or add >commands a second for the entire "drop window" (which is can be around >2 hours -- not the 15 minutes verisign says). Now, if they get the >expiration date when they do a check or add, they can cease hammering >for that name.
But that's my whole point -- that's not what seems likely to happen. What will probably happen instead is that if a speculator has a system that can make 100 connections a second, he'll use them all. So once he finds out that half his names are taken, he won't drop down to 50 connections a second; he'll still be making 100 connections a second, checking the remaining names twice as often. When there's only one name left that he wants, he'll still be checking 100 times a second for that one name. I may be wrong, but isn't that what you would do as a speculator with access to 100 simultaneous connections? It maximizes your chance of getting the remaining names, and doesn't lessen the registry load at all. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
