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		vaccinator on Nov 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Goodbye PowerDNS It can't be more then a gigabyte... I guess DNS was ahead of its time when it comes to clouds... but clouds are killing the internet as we used to know it

jodrellblank on Nov 28, 2020 [–]

"According to the latest data from Verisign, there were 359.8 million registered domain names at the close of 2019’s third quarter." - https://makeawebsitehub.com/how-many-domains-are-there/

Assume each zonefile is 1Kb that could be 350GB of data, right?

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