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Derek Balling wrote: > > True, that's what his statement appears to say, however, who is to define > "abuse" of the whois service? > > As an example, a company I worked for a while back wanted to generate, on > their statistics reports for their customers' web sites, who each domain > was who was hitting their page, and who it belonged to (e.g. someone Interesting point and an interesting application. I never thought of doing that. I guess I just always think in terms of domain names. You mean, there's a world outside of the Internet? =) Since we're on the topic, what *is* the process for getting access to the whois DB? Is this even possible at this day and age? Isn't there already a process in place to get full copies of the root zone files? Couldn't this be extended to the whois data? Heck, it's just another contract.... -- Michael L. Barrow * <[email protected]> * Network Engineer Epoch Internet * DSL Engineering * (949) 399-8413
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