Only a few weeks ago we were talking about this also. It is obvious that most of us think that lookups are slow... because they simply are and they we'll be more and more as more TLDs appear. Is pretty obvious that if someone searches for abcd.com, we want to offer him if net, org, info, biz, cc, maybe .ca and .uk, and soon .name, .eu... god knows is available. Not to say if we want to suggest at least 3 similar names, with all extensions... who said "2 seconds"?
Is quite clear that OpenSRS should really work on this, by means of improving the API (one only connection for all extensions/names), mirroring the lookups to other servers or any other alternative that makes us ahead of competitor ICANN registrars. I do not want to make a simple criticize to OpenSRS but it some time seems as the development team is not growing us much as the resellers and volume of domain registrations. Simple things seem to take months to be implemented god knows why. I am thinking for example of the loooong discussion with details of RSP in WHOIS information... I just looked at it again... and no change yet... we were only talking about making some fields optional for god sake. What is the "big" complication here? Jose Luis Moya another one from Spain > Subject: Re: Fwd: Slow Domain Name Lookup > > I completely agree with you. > > For me, domain lookups have been always excessively slow, with each name a > customer enters, I check for com, net, org, tv, biz & info; this takes in > optimal circumstances around 10 seconds to display results (plus delay for > downloading html page). > > I don't think I'm checking too many names at once, in fact that's the > minimum IMHO, but I'm sure we're loosing customers for the long delay to > display available names in our website. > > I understand we're at disadvantage for checking names from within Spain, > OpenSRS servers are at 165 ms (round-trip) from here. Many time ago I > suggested in dev-list the adding of a new API command, like 'Check Domain' > but with the ability of checking several names at once, things would be > speeded up in this way since we're saving a lot of queries to the server. > That message was ignored... not even responded :-( > > Regards, > David S�nchez > > > At 20:13 06/01/2002 -0800, you wrote: >> Why are domain name lookups via opensrs so slow? Or, have I just had the bad >> luck to check out the slow implementations? >> >> Here's what I have run into: >> I have been in the market for a developer to set up an opensrs domain name >> registration system on my web site. Each time I am contacted by a developer >> I >> ask them for URL's showing work they've done including their own web sites. >> >> Upon checking out their domain name lookup, each lookup invariably takes much >> longer than is typical for domain name lookups. In fact, so long that if I >> did >> not know better, I would have assumed that the lookup did not work and would >> have bailed out before ever getting a result. >> >> Given that the domain name lookup is the first thing any prospective customer >> will do, it seems that this is a major problem for what otherwise seems to >> be a >> good system with responsible management. >> >> Am I wrong about the speed? If not, is there a workaround? >> >> I look forward to your comments and suggestions. Thank you. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Phone: (408) 733-4290 >> Fax: (408) 733-8941 >> http://www.feely-associates.com > > David S�nchez > Veloxia Network,S.L. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
