What do you mean by "domain name lookup"? Do you mean, checking availability status? If so, availability status checks take about 2 seconds. This is pretty much normal. Time it at netsol and other places.
If its a lot slower for you on your site, well, contact your ISP. On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Ted Feely wrote: > Why are domain name lookups via opensrs so slow? Or, have I just had the bad > luck to check out the slow implementations? > > Here's what I have run into: > I have been in the market for a developer to set up an opensrs domain name > registration system on my web site. Each time I am contacted by a developer I > ask them for URL's showing work they've done including their own web sites. > > Upon checking out their domain name lookup, each lookup invariably takes much > longer than is typical for domain name lookups. In fact, so long that if I > did > not know better, I would have assumed that the lookup did not work and would > have bailed out before ever getting a result. > > Given that the domain name lookup is the first thing any prospective customer > will do, it seems that this is a major problem for what otherwise seems to > be a > good system with responsible management. > > Am I wrong about the speed? If not, is there a workaround? > > I look forward to your comments and suggestions. Thank you. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: (408) 733-4290 > Fax: (408) 733-8941 > http://www.feely-associates.com > >
