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