[registrars] Interesting WHOIS stats at directNIC

["Donny Simonton" <donny@intercosmos.com>]

This is our stats on directNIC for the month of May 2003.

 

Top Ten abusers of whois.directnic.com for the month of May 2003
IP Address	Total WHOIS looks	Percentage of Total	Host Name	Owns IP Block
216.168.229.6	153613	9.650%	N/A	Network Solutions, Inc.
207.189.98.50	63056	3.961%	apps.snapnames.com
204.251.10.43	47614	2.991%	web3.directnic.com (Us)
207.44.212.82	45410	2.853%	N/A	Everyones Internet, Inc.(Rackshack)
216.21.228.13	24709	1.552%	N/A	Register.com, Inc
208.252.207.96	13591	0.854%	ernst.vab.com
63.115.144.6	12315	0.774%	user6.esconett.org
62.146.33.50	11054	0.694%	www.united-domains.de
212.53.64.228	10497	0.659%	prodwebapp2.netnames.com
209.25.140.20	10484	0.659%	snarf.alldomains.com

 

Total WHOIS Queries for the month of May 2003	1591884
Total Unique IP Addresses	41532

 

Now why in the world would Network Solutions do 153,613 WHOIS queries in a month?  Your guess is as good as mine, I took at look at about 20 of the domains they queried and none of them were transferred from Network Solutions.  We had a few from register.com and a few from openSRS, but more than 50% of the domains were new registrations with us.  The strange part is they weren’t new registrations in May or even April.

 

So if somebody from Network Solution would be kind enough to explain why we have 153 thousand whois queries against us I will be more than happy to continue to provide them with port 43 access from that IP address.  Otherwise, since I consider this to be spam, and I will be shutting down access to that IP address.  Because for all I know Network Solutions may be the ones selling email addresses to all of the spammers.

 

Donny Simonton

directNIC.com