I completely agree with you. For me, domain lookups have been always excessively slow, with each name a customer enters, I check for com, net, org, tv, biz & info; this takes in optimal circumstances around 10 seconds to display results (plus delay for downloading html page).
I don't think I'm checking too many names at once, in fact that's the minimum IMHO, but I'm sure we're loosing customers for the long delay to display available names in our website. I understand we're at disadvantage for checking names from within Spain, OpenSRS servers are at 165 ms (round-trip) from here. Many time ago I suggested in dev-list the adding of a new API command, like 'Check Domain' but with the ability of checking several names at once, things would be speeded up in this way since we're saving a lot of queries to the server. That message was ignored... not even responded :-( Regards, David S�nchez At 20:13 06/01/2002 -0800, you 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 David S�nchez Veloxia Network,S.L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
