A proposal about hostcount and DNS

            When and if there is a need for such activities, I'd propose to
            leave that to commercial entities.
      In that case it is extremely likely that the number of
      sites that close their nameservers for zone transfers
      will grow immensely.
    Probably.
No, Wilfried: *extremely likely*. People are getting
sick and tired of spamming and such and the idea of
a commercial company "scanning" their nameservers
(i.e. implying possible commercial abuse and even
more spamming) would most certainly lead to massive
blocking of zone transfers.
    But then it might be deemed useful to still allow access to
    the "RIPE Approved" sites doing the walk, and when there is
    a published document which describes the AUP for the data
    obtained?
As soon as it would become clear that commercial
companies would to the work, no AUP would help to
overcome the fear for commercial abuse and (more)
spamming.


	Piet