WHOIS DB responses degraded

Resolved
Resolved

We've now resolved the incident. Thanks for your patience.

Recovering

We believe that we have temporarily mitigated the unexpected load. We will continue to monitor the service closely, and will be working to allow for better scaling in future.

Identified

We've identified a very above average spike in queries, and have put in place temporary blocks on certain exceptionally high use source subnets.

Investigating

We have detected some degraded performance in WHOIS DB responses, and are investigating.

Began at:

Affected components
  • WHOIS Database
    • WHOIS DB Queries
    • WHOIS web queries