[db-wg] ccTLD data in RIPE DB?

Ulf,

On 2004-10-22 18:36:32 +0200, Ulf Kieber wrote:
> Re,
> 
> weren't ccTLD domain registries supposed to remove their stuff from
> the database?

There isn't a formal requirement about this.  A couple of years ago
the sheer size of ccTLD data caused several problems, thus the ccTLDs
(especially big ones) were invited to implement their own whois services 
and they did so indeed, and removed their data from RIPE Whois DB.

> 
> Do a "whois -r -T domain -i notify notify at nic.gm".
> 
> Which ccTLDs are still holding their registry data in the RIPE DB
> anyway?

Some small ccTLDs seem like still using RIPE Whois DB as their whois
service.  Here is the number of domain objects split into
their TLDs:

 149428 arpa
   1319 fo
   1236 sm
   1036 bg
    693 mc
    673 gm
    182 no
    172 il
     76 gr
     74 pl
     64 lv
     56 fi
     33 tr
     32 be
     27 hu
     24 gl
     21 pt
     14 md
     13 at
     11 is
     10 ba
      8 ie
      8 ee
      6 se
      6 sa
      5 es
      4 uk
      4 ru
      4 ly
      4 kz
      4 jo
      4 eu
      4 cz
      3 tn
      3 si
      2 va
      2 ug
      2 ke
      2 it
      2 ir
      2 ga
      2 cm
      2 by
      2 az
      2 al


FO and SM objects are slowly increasing, so I presume they are still using our
DB as their whois service.  The others look like left-overs.

I think it would be a good idea to remove all forward domain objects from
RIPE Whois DB, as the domain name allocation process is conceptually
different than Routing Registry and Address Allocation processes. In the
past ccTLDs were allowed to use the RIPE Whois DB as their whois service as
they weren't big enough to support their own whois services and somehow it made
sense to include ccTLD data there but I think this is not valid any more.
 
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