GTLD Stats

[Danny Mayer]

This is a Web server question, not a DNS question.  Count the accesses
in the Web server log files. The GTLD only provides information about the
Nameservers for a domain, not the A record for the Web server. Even
then it will only hand it out the first time a nameserver asks. After that
the nameserver has it in cache for at least a while (depending on TTL)
and each nameserver will use that for responding to requests for the A
record of the nameserver. So even if they GTLD servers were to bother
to keep logs, the numbers would be wildly inaccurate. Ditto for the
authorative nameservers. If you didn't keep Web server logs, now's the
time to start keeping them.

Danny
At 02:25 PM 7/9/02, Warrick FitzGerald wrote:

>Sorry, I think my original question was a little misleading.
>
>I understand that the GTLD servers would not be able to provide stats on a
>specific A record and that it would not be very accurate, however if I were
>to compare the number of queries made for that domain vs. another domain we
>own with the same TTL I could make an educated, it would be better than
>telling my manager ... I don't know :)
>
>Thanks agiain
>Warrick
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Warrick FitzGerald" <wfitzgerald at livetechnology.com>
>To: <bind-users at isc.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:08 PM
>Subject: GTLD Stats
>
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > One of my managers asked me how many users have requested a specific URL
> > that we registored a while back. The problem is that we do not have any
> > public A record that resolves to a server, so I have no idea how many
> > requests would have been made for that specific domain (no log files).
>Does
> > anyone know if it is possible to get stats from a specific domain from the
> > GTLD servers ?
> >
> > eg. a.gtld-servers.net ?
> >
> > Much appreciated
> >
> > Warrick FitzGerald
> >
> >
> >
> >
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