I feel one of the biggest reasons for Internic's backlog is their inconsistancy in registering domain names.
Most people assume that if a name is showing up in their database On-Hold, that it can't be registered...well, in a 'round about way it can if one emails Internic a Registration Template a day or so before or day of that it's going to expire...chances are that when the name becomes available, that person will beat out all others. In fact I've seen domain names go off hold and the very next day see they're registered to someone else the day BEFORE the name went off hold...how can that be!!!??? Unless they accept templates that are sent before names go off hold. That's most likely why Internic is getting spammed with zillions of registration templates...everyone is trying to beat out everyone else by mailing zillions of templates. The cat is out of the bag...
Here's another secret...use Worldnic to register...you read that right...costs a little more, but it's a damn good way to beat others who've submitted registration templates via email that have yet to be processed. Worldnic compares against their *real-time* database, not Whois like most third-party registers do.
Internic has got to become more consistant in how they process new names or the load problem will only continue to get worse as more and more domain speculators fight it out...1999 is going to be a blood bath since many names are expected to expire that were registered in 1997...the fun has only begun...the speculators are ready, but is Internic?
Many encryption schemes are based on the difficulty of factoring numbers. I suspect a primes lookup table would allow for faster decryption - does anyone know if this method is used by the NSA or others to do bulk decryption of data.
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I feel one of the biggest reasons for Internic's backlog is their inconsistancy in registering domain names.
Most people assume that if a name is showing up in their database On-Hold, that it can't be registered...well, in a 'round about way it can if one emails Internic a Registration Template a day or so before or day of that it's going to expire...chances are that when the name becomes available, that person will beat out all others. In fact I've seen domain names go off hold and the very next day see they're registered to someone else the day BEFORE the name went off hold...how can that be!!!??? Unless they accept templates that are sent before names go off hold. That's most likely why Internic is getting spammed with zillions of registration templates...everyone is trying to beat out everyone else by mailing zillions of templates. The cat is out of the bag...
Here's another secret...use Worldnic to register...you read that right...costs a little more, but it's a damn good way to beat others who've submitted registration templates via email that have yet to be processed. Worldnic compares against their *real-time* database, not Whois like most third-party registers do.
Internic has got to become more consistant in how they process new names or the load problem will only continue to get worse as more and more domain speculators fight it out...1999 is going to be a blood bath since many names are expected to expire that were registered in 1997...the fun has only begun...the speculators are ready, but is Internic?
Ron Bennett
Many encryption schemes are based on the difficulty of factoring numbers. I suspect a primes lookup table would allow for faster decryption - does anyone know if this method is used by the NSA or others to do bulk decryption of data.