Author: Kristian Fiskerstrand

"but for some reason they wouldn't let us have any of that"
probably a good idea

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognise. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organised.

Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, and even post pictures on your own blog.

KF Webs recently got access to the gTLD zone-files, of which we decided to have a closer look on the COM zone-file.

The COM zone file, known as com.zone.gz on the FTP server is 810 MiB of size. Uncompressed it is 3.7 GiB. There was a total of 117,379,441 records, as each domain name has multiple records due to the nature of the DNS system using multiple nameservers. A minimum of two is required, although it is recommended to use at minimum of three nameservers and not more than seven.

About 870 thousand records were A records for such nameservers, so those got deleted, we also ran the zone file through some shell scripts in order for it to become a list of unique domain names, resulting in a 685 MiB file.

Loading into the database and indexing it was going at a rate of about 560,000 domain names a minute. It was loaded into ta total of 11 MyISAM database tables in MySQL, then combined using a 12th table of the MERGE storage engine.

At the present time the COM zone-file holds 51,268,278 active domain names, meaning that on average a domain name has 2.2895 nameservers.

Read the full article and view the graphs at www.kfwebs.net