<i>cough</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10352001" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10352001</a> <i>cough</i><p>we&#x27;re in the process of getting all the zone files we can to reduce the amount of DNS requests we have to do, but the real kicker is whois databases, for example AFNIC asks for 10K€ to get access to a copy of the database...