Re: [ripe-db-requirements-tf] Domain Query Statistics

Hi Ed, thanks for these additional data points.

Out of 2 billion whois queries in January, I found 422,061 queries with the reverse domain flag (or ~14k/day). I found 758,583 queries for domain objects by primary key (or ~24k/day).

We might safely assume that for reverse domain objects the DB is primnarily a provisioning engine that leverages on the contact details and, probably more importantly, on the authentication/authorization infrastructure. I'd not expect to retrieve too much operational information there. It might be interesting to see whether the query sources are "heavy" or re-occuring users or other signs for the queries being largely for consistency checks. All in all, likely a side issue. Regards, Peter