2 Sep
1998
2 Sep
'98
11:59 a.m.
How many queries per day do you see? Given the simplicity of a typical query, I'd expect that a single server could handle many millions of requests/day.
mentioned by David Holtzman is to control _abuse_ of the whois service. Otherwise, the load on whois will grow without bounds and we'd eventually have to pay more in registration fees. Of course, that's just my figurin' and nothing official...