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RE: [registrars] Interesting WHOIS stats at directNIC


NSI recurse lookups to the sponsoring registrar when someone runs a query on their whois. One could argue that they are helping you market your brand and helping to provide a service to the general Internet community.
-----Original Message-----
From: Donny Simonton [mailto:donny@intercosmos.com]
Sent: 11 June 2003 16:30
To: Registrars@dnso.org
Subject: [registrars] Interesting WHOIS stats at directNIC

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

 

 

 

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