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