If you have lookup_all_tlds set to one, you will incur 3 lookups for each
search the end user does.
As for statistics, your mileage will invariably vary, depending on what
other tools you provide your end user to help them select a domain name.
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jeff C wrote:
> Kirk,
>
> We average about 17% lookups to registrations, I am not sure about the
> .com, .net and .org statistics though. An SRS rep would probably have to
> answer that question because we cannot see what their server side code
> is actually building stats from.
>
> Jeff Cronstrom
> TZO.com
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>
> Kirk Fletcher wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Looking at the reg_system stats from the reseller interface, it seems
> > we have a fairly constant ratio of lookups registered. I was just
> > wondering what other peoples experience was with this... our ratio
> > is about 1%. That is, approcimately 1 out of every 100 domains
> > that a user looks up is finally registered.
> >
> > It seems low - but I guess not too unexpected... knowing how long it
> > can take to find an available domain. How are other peoples stats
> > in this regard?
> >
> > Also - a question about number of lookups... When a user does a search,
> > it checks for .com, .net and .org. Do the stats count this as 3 lookups,
> > or just one?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kirk Fletcher
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