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InsidiousWombat • today at 4:29 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Isn't 700 changes a second like... really low, considering their scale and amount of domains they manage ?


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straygar • today at 4:45 PM

There's about 360 million domains (according to Verisign as of March 31, includes inactive sites as well) and if Cloudflare manages about 1/3 to 1/2 of them, that's like 180 million domains at most.

700 changes per second is 1.8 billion changes per month. I guess 10 changes per top level domain per month is quite low, which suggests a very long tail distribution, which makes sense, given that most websites are just a static page a business sets up once, with DNS changes maybe once every few years.

mvkel • today at 4:40 PM

412M domains registered worldwide

700 changes per second implies 15% of all domains are changing daily, which is almost certainly not the case.

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