Telephone calls have flattened off because the lines are saturated. It will be fixed.
Hostmaster Email is about 250,000/month and has flattened.
Domain registration continues (COM is still the biggest). .NET is overtaking .ORG in total registrations.
Address allocation is flatter than it has been in the past couple of years.
Queries to the whois server directly has been growing.
QPS to a.root-servers.net continues to grow over time.
InterNIC RS Topology – Six Lines that are three hops or less from MAE-EAST, NJ NAP, Chicago NAP and MAE-WEST. FDDI Backbone. Five RS machines will be replaced by Ultra2s and alphas are being considered.
More than 90% of all new name registrations are automatically processed.
MTS handles 400K messages a day. Outbound messages are smaller due to issues with Sendmail. Database of 38GB of compressed tickets (growth of 600%). Whois can now list domains associated with a server and a rate limiter has been added to keep folks from attempting to dump the whole database. Eric Lear notes that this will make it harder for users on a large time-sharing host. Mark notes that is possible, but the number of hits per host over a time period.
Guardian – 28,640 Guardians, Mail-From is still the big, Crypt-pw is next, PGP least. How many people have tried to commit fraud? Some folks have tried, but Mark does not have the specific number.
RWHOIS – 1.5 Spec released. Replication is working/PGP Guardian is working.
Billing is a problem area. Invoice non-delivery, Unaccountable payments and phones saturated
Solutions – First Virtual Payment System, new invoice printing/mailing subcontractor, automated posting for checks, 24/7 credit card center 888-771-3000, +1-402-496-9798
HelpDesk – 7AM-9PM EST now and soon 7AM-12Midnight soon
More Lines (moving from 32 to 70 lines at the new site)
Office is Full and moving to a new site in May.
Legal – NSI has been named in 19 suits.
Unfair competition in 12 cases, 5 of which are currently active.
Seven cases involving domain names – two cases are still active.
Future –
Mark Bouchers says that .ORG and .NET appears to be abused. Mark agrees.
Matthew Kauffman – SWIP and RWHOIS – What does the InterNIC query for and in what way?
Mark says that the 1.5 spec clears up the issues. It is not the case that folks have to run the NSI implementation.