You might find: http://www.rssac.org/stats.html interesting
% Does anyone have pointers to data on what sort of sever load the root
% servers currently face? And, especially, how this compares to what they
% can stand? (Not to mention how we calculate the latter...)
%
% And while I'm wishing, how about data showing how this compares to the
% load on the name servers that serve, say, .com?
%
% Thanks!
%
% On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Keith Moore wrote:
% [...]
% > > This means that the number of
% > > stale cache hits for existing TLDs goes down at the same time as the
% > > number of stale cache hits for new TLDs goes up (although not necessarily
% > > the same rate). In order to significantly threaten the root load, you
% > > would have to significantly increase the number of queries.
% >
% > that's simply incorrect.
% >
% > > My point is that ICANN only needs to design policies which allow for the
% > > creation of TLDs such as .auto and .car, but they do not need to decide
% > > that specifically .auto gets in while .car does not.
% >
% > Sure, but such decisions still have to be made due to various considerations
% > including but not limited to root server load, and moving that decision
away
% > from ICANN to another controversial organization isn't likely to solve any
% > problems that I can see.
% >
% > Ketih
% >
% >
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