Re: [ga] Re: Root server traffic

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still have one more message allowance today - so here goes - lets see 
if we all can get our heads around this.

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> And even if that was my intention, it still remains a plain error from my
> part, considering that I have sent the query to the standard root system,
> and not to some alternate root.
>  

Well how do you explain .elvis? or .corp? Neither are mistypes.

What is happening here is people sharing URLs outside their local root 
are causing a good deal of the heavy traffic at IANA roots. China is one 
excellent example of this. The chinese TLDss äå (which means âChina"), 
åå (which means âcompany"), and çç (which means ânet") are used by 
over 50 million people daily. When those people communicate with others 
who do not use the china root and send them china root URLs then anytime 
those IANA users click on these URLs the net result is the root servers 
get queried. That means the logs at the IANA roots show traffic for 
these TLDs, or more specifically their IDN equivalents.

Think about it folks - that 50 million users accessing TLDs outside the 
IANA deprecated root. Anytime those users communicate with other using 
those URLs - bingo the roots get a request for something they don't 
know. And I suspect 50 millions users associated with those TLDs are 
causing alot of error traffic at the IANA roots. Of course no one has 
performed a root analysis in years that has been public so we'll never 
know. Thats why I speculate the error rate has gone up significantly 
from the 98% error originally reported by CAIDA in my article. Today its 
probably 99.99999 .... or something like that.

One things for sure - I would luv to know the stats on how often the 
IANA root gets queried for china root tlds. That would be an eye opener 
for the world.

regards
joe baptista

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