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May 28th, 2009 by 
Susan Prosser
We’re speeding things up!
Domain Name Wire recently posted several shortcut techniques to using some of the most popular DomainTools services. The post was timely, we at DomainTools have taken great measures and made significant strides to improve speed and performance of the site itself for our customers around the world.
The single greatest improvement was the implementation of a CDN (content delivery network). We tested the performance of several CDN’s and we found Akami offered the best results. They have the largest international distributed network that helps us extend the performance benefits to our entire worldwide customer base. We completed changes to the DomainTools site to fully utilize Akami’s CDN and rolled out the changes a few weeks ago.
DomainTools also started using the Google Javascript CDN for common Ajax libraries. There is a rapidly-growing number of sites using the Google CDN for JS libraries. By using this with DomainTools, we increase the chance that our customers already have a cached copy of the libraries on their computer. This has helped boost page load and responsiveness on the DomainTools site.
Our international customers will likely notice the greatest increase in speed. However, even from my house located less than five miles from the DomainTools data center in Washington State, the number of hops were cut in half and the speed tripled. I was going through 17 hops to California, then up to Canada and back to Washington, a circuitous route that averaged six seconds – now, it’s closer to two seconds. On average, the site load improved over 200%.
See below for a sample of the performance improvements listed in seconds, “Pre” or “Post” site enhancements.
As if that wasn’t’ enough, the development and engineering team has been tirelessly optimizing the internal code base, server infrastructure and network topology. These changes, and many others we have in the works, will continue to improve the response times on DomainTools. We have even extended the changes to the Aftermarket.com live auction platform. It’s part of our ongoing commitment to enhance the service and performance of DomainTools for all our customers – domestic and international.
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17 Comments »
May 31st, 2009 at 11:04 am
Continuous, measurable improvements! That’s the key.
June 1st, 2009 at 4:46 am
HOW DO I CANCEL MY ACCOUNT?!
< < UPDATED >> We will have our support team follow up with you to assist in canceling your membership.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:56 am
SO … What’s UP with Jay ??
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 am
Jay has been terminated from Thought Convergence Inc though he is still in control of Name Intelligence Inc, the holding company for Name Intelligence LLC which was acquired by Thought Convergence Inc.
On a side note, I’m liking these updates. Nice work Domain Tools.
June 4th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Hmm, I am in Switzerland and it is not faster for me. Domain Whois Lookups are still slow for me.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Great Improvement!
June 6th, 2009 at 10:50 am
To be very honest, at one time I would look forward to new posts on Domain Tools BLOG which I would share with my co-workers; now I could care less and noticed this new bulletin by accident. The only new posts are when you want to sell me something or when you want to convince me how great things are. For now the Domain Tools services continue to perform adequately but I only go to DomainTools.com
when I am working on a case, as it is no longer my primary source for news on Domain issues. I suspect that Domain Tools will continue on autopilot but its impact on the industry will diminish as the management allows a once cutting edge product to sink into obscurity.
Michael Ronayne
June 9th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
What performance improvement??? Slower than a dawg in the last few weeks!
July 13th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I cant figure out how to cancel my account with these guys.