Whois: Now More Than Ever…

• Increased industry need for and reliance on Whois

• Load Statistics

• Home grown network management tools
• Commercial products

• Jan 2000 -> Jan 2001 number of queries doubled
• Jan 2001 -> Jan 2002
  • port 43 queries doubled
  • web queries increased by a factor of 6, mostly since November 2001
• 97 million queries per month

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