> The biggest shockers were the .info and .org domains that showed really poor performance especially in the 85 percentile range, despite being one of the oldest and well established top-level domains with millions of registered domains each. After some further investigation it appears 4 out of 6 of their nameservers are performing extremely poorly which is the reason for the poor results.
I always thought with all the money collected from ten million .org domains they would have an army of nameservers to make sure latency is low, instead they actually only have 6 nameservers and are performing poorly? Sure it'll probably won't impact real world performance but I'm still disappointed that they seem to be only doing bare minimum. I wonder where those hundred million bucks actually goes?
Most TLDs run the bare minimum amount of nameservers required by ICANN, specially the newer TLDs. However, hundreds of nameservers scattered around the globe wouldn't help much either, because they just need to have faster responses to the mass of recursive resolvers.
Hundreds of nameservers scattered around the globe with anycast absolutely helps.
The main thing between a DNS request and a DNS response is network round trip time. Actually processing the request should be trivial (especially for .org, but even at .com), the zone file may be large compared to most, but it's all static records, with batched updates. I remember when internic would do updates at midnight, but you might not make it in the batch; mostly I see 5-20 minute delays on changes now.
I always thought with all the money collected from ten million .org domains they would have an army of nameservers to make sure latency is low, instead they actually only have 6 nameservers and are performing poorly? Sure it'll probably won't impact real world performance but I'm still disappointed that they seem to be only doing bare minimum. I wonder where those hundred million bucks actually goes?